What makes this site quietly unusual is not just its location but its status: when surveyors went looking for it, the coniferous plantation that now covers the hillside swallowed it entirely. The site could not be found.

The place-name itself carries meaning. A killeen, in Irish usage, typically refers to a small unconsecrated burial ground, most often associated with unbaptised infants or, in some instances, with those who died outside the formal rites of the Church. These sites are scattered across the Irish landscape, frequently at field margins, old boundaries, or slightly elevated ground, and they were rarely marked on official maps. The low earthen bank described here is a feature seen at other such enclosures, forming a modest boundary between the buried and the everyday world around them. Eleven grave-markers is a relatively specific count, suggesting the site was observed closely enough at some point for someone to walk and note each one, even if that knowledge has since become local rather than recorded.