No headstones, no carved markers, no formal enclosure. Only local memory preserves the knowledge that at least two children were laid to rest here, within the earthen banks of a structure already many centuries old when the burials took place.

The practice of burying unbaptised infants or young children in liminal, unconsecrated spaces was once widespread across Ireland. Ringforts, the circular enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland typically defined by one or more earthen or stone banks and ditches, were frequently chosen for this purpose. They occupied a curious position in the popular imagination, associated with the otherworld and with the fairy folk, and therefore considered neither fully sacred nor fully profane. A ringfort in use as a burial site for children sits within a long tradition of such places, known in Irish as cilliní, where those who could not receive a Catholic church burial were interred quietly, often without ceremony and without markers. The Ballygaddy ringfort carrying the reference GA029-015 is recorded as containing at least two such burials, though the true number may never be known.

Because no grave-markers are visible, there is little for the eye to find. The significance of the place lies almost entirely in what local knowledge has retained rather than what the ground reveals.