These were places where infants who died unbaptised were laid to rest outside consecrated ground, excluded by Church doctrine from formal Christian burial. The practice persisted in rural Ireland well into the twentieth century, and the sites themselves often occupy older, liminal spaces, hillsides, field boundaries, or ancient enclosures, as if the land itself was being repurposed for those who fell between categories.

This particular site, close to the western shore of Brandon Bay near An Cheapaigh on the Dingle Peninsula, was noted in the Ordnance Survey Name Books for the Cloghane area as a calluragh, the Irish term for such an unconsecrated children's burial ground. The entry described it as being in the form of a fort, roughly circular, with a surrounding feature about two feet high composed chiefly of stones. That description raises the possibility that the enclosure began as something else entirely, perhaps a much older field boundary or even the remnant of an early ecclesiastical or prehistoric feature, later adopted as a burial place for unbaptised children. The site was catalogued more fully by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey, a detailed regional study covering the archaeology of Corca Dhuibhne, the westernmost barony of Kerry, which remains one of the more thoroughly documented stretches of the Irish Atlantic seaboard.