Measuring only about 23 metres long and just over 5 metres wide, it is easy to pass without a second glance, its boundaries formed by ordinary modern field walls. But the scattered stones within, most of them no longer standing as they once did, mark this as a children's burial ground, a place of a kind once found across rural Ireland and known in Irish as a cillín.

Cillíní were informal burial sites used for unbaptised infants and sometimes others considered ineligible for consecrated ground under Catholic practice, including stillborn children and occasionally suicides or strangers. They occupy an ambiguous space in Irish religious and social history, neither officially sanctioned nor entirely forgotten, kept instead in local memory and maintained, however loosely, by communities who had nowhere else to turn. This example at Carra is poorly preserved even by the modest standards of such sites. A number of stones within the interior indicate the positions of graves, but only two remain in their original position. The rest have shifted or fallen over time, leaving the ground to read more as rough pasture than as a burial place to an unknowing eye.