The ground has been levelled flat, and nothing on the surface would suggest that anyone lies beneath it. What makes this quietly unsettling is the nature of the burials themselves: this was a cillín, the Irish term for an informal burial ground used for unbaptised infants, children who died before receiving the sacrament of baptism and who were therefore excluded from consecrated ground under Catholic tradition. Such sites were typically placed at liminal locations, boundaries and thresholds, and ringforts were a common choice, their ancient enclosures already carrying a sense of otherness in the local landscape.

The site at Pallas occupied the interior of a ringfort, a type of circular enclosure, usually defined by an earthen bank and ditch, that was widely built during the early medieval period in Ireland and used as a farmstead or settlement. By the time Bowman recorded this place in 1934, the fort itself had already been levelled, the earthworks gone. What Bowman noted was the memory of the practice rather than any physical evidence of it. Local knowledge adds a detail that sits slightly apart from the cillín tradition: alongside the unbaptised children, a man and a child were reportedly buried here too, which suggests the site may have served as a place of last resort for more than one category of person excluded, for whatever reason, from the parish churchyard.

Nothing marks the spot today. The burials left no visible surface trace, and the ringfort that once gave the place its shape and its strangeness has been erased by agricultural work. The site survives only in the record of what people remembered.