No headstones rise from the grass, no inscriptions catch the light. What marks this as a place of the dead is largely what is absent, and what was recorded by earlier observers who found more than survives today.

The 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map identified the site plainly as 'Old Burial Ground', a roughly rectangular enclosure measuring around 45 metres east to west and 55 metres north to south. By the time the same maps were reissued in 1905 and 1936, the name had quietly disappeared, even as the field boundaries remained. Writing in 1934, a researcher named Bowman noted grass-covered mounds along the northern side, which he took as possible evidence of a former church, and counted ten small headstones, none taller than twelve inches, marking individual graves. Those modest stones appear to have since vanished, or sunk beyond visibility. The enclosure sits within the south-western quadrant of what may have been an early ecclesiastical enclosure, the kind of roughly circular or oval boundary, often of earthen construction, that typically surrounded an early Irish monastery or church site. That broader context gives some weight to the idea that this was once sacred ground in a more formal sense. Grove White, writing between 1905 and 1925, adds a more particular note: he recorded that at Kilgoban a rath, an earthen ringfort, had been used from time immemorial as a burial place for stillborn children. Whether or not this is exactly the same site, the association points to a practice that was once widespread in Ireland, placing unbaptised infants in marginal or ancient ground, outside the consecrated parish cemetery, in places that occupied an ambiguous space between the sacred and the secular.