Known in Irish as a calluragh, or cillín, these were informal plots set aside for those whom the institutional Church would not permit to be interred in consecrated ground, most commonly unbaptised infants. Neither fully acknowledged nor entirely forgotten, they occupy an ambiguous place in the landscape, and in memory.

The scholar and folklorist known as An Seabhac, the pen name of Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha, specifically identified this site as a calluragh, a detail that places it within a living tradition of local knowledge on the Corca Dhuibhne peninsula. The Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, compiled by J. Cuppage and published in 1986, drew on that tradition in recording the site. The calluragh as a category is distinct from a formal graveyard: typically unmarked by headstones, located at boundaries, old ringfort ditches, or coastal edges, these plots were chosen with some care despite their unofficial status, often reflecting older, pre-Christian ideas about liminal ground and its suitability for those who died outside the sacramental order.

The notes on this site are sparse, and the ground itself would give little away to a casual eye. That, in a sense, is the point. Calluraghs survive across Ireland not as monuments but as small, unmarked presences, known largely because someone local thought to say so.