The name is the first clue to what this place once was: the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842 recorded it as "Kill Burial Gd.", the "kill" element deriving from the Irish "cill", meaning a church or early ecclesiastical enclosure. That prefix points to origins well before any formal parish system, suggesting this ground was in use during the early medieval period, when small, locally maintained burial sites were a common feature of the Irish landscape.

The enclosure itself measures roughly fifteen metres east to west and just under eleven metres north to south, with the surrounding bank still standing to about 1.2 metres in height. These proportions and the raised interior are characteristic of early Christian burial grounds that were never incorporated into later church organisation and gradually fell out of regular use. What survives at Lickowen is a physically legible outline, though the interior tells a less dignified story. Only one grave marker remains, positioned on the northern side, and there has been recent dumping within the enclosure, a fate that quietly abandoned sites across Ireland have long been vulnerable to, particularly when they sit in working farmland without any obvious monument to signal their significance.