A calluragh, sometimes also rendered as cillín, was an informal burial place reserved for unbaptised infants and others, such as suicides or strangers, who were excluded from consecrated ground. These liminal cemeteries occupy a quiet but persistent place in Irish landscape and memory, and this one sits within the enclosure of an Early Christian church site known as Kilcolman, or Cill na gColmán, adding a further layer of time to an already layered place.

The site was documented in J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region, which noted that the visible graves are concentrated in the south-western quadrant of the enclosure. The most legible of them is a low, roughly rectangular mound measuring 2.25 metres long, oriented north-west to south-east, with its south-western side edged by three stones set on end. Other graves nearby are marked by mounds, small upright stones, or slabs lying flat. Particularly striking is the presence of two piles of quartz pebbles in the north-eastern part of the site, in an area where earlier Ordnance Survey maps also recorded graves. Quartz, with its white brightness, appears repeatedly at Irish burial sites across many periods, and its use here suggests the north-eastern area was reused specifically for calluragh burials at some later point. The site also contains an ogham stone, one of the upright pillar stones inscribed in the early medieval Irish script, the most clearly defined grave lying just five metres to its north-west. The calluragh function of the site continued until at least the nineteenth century.