The site at Ballintemple in County Wicklow is one such place, a graveyard recorded as having been used in recent times specifically as a children's burial ground.

These sites, known in Irish as cilliní (singular cillín), appear across the country in their hundreds, often occupying liminal locations such as old ringfort enclosures, the edges of townlands, or the grounds of early medieval ecclesiastical sites. Children who died before baptism were, under Catholic doctrine, considered unable to enter consecrated ground, and so families buried them elsewhere, often quietly, often at night, in places that nonetheless carried a sense of sanctity through long use or ancient association. The Ballintemple site was noted during a field inspection in 1990, when local information confirmed its relatively recent use for this purpose.