for Children". That designation alone tells you something about the landscape's history. This is a cillin, or children's burial ground, one of hundreds of informal sites scattered across Ireland where unbaptised infants and others excluded from consecrated ground were quietly interred, often at the margins of parishes and the edges of fields. The practice was driven by Catholic teaching that held unbaptised souls in a theological limbo, and by the social necessity of giving families some form of burial rite, however unofficial.

The site sits atop a low ridge among otherwise undulating pasture, and was recorded on the 1841 Ordnance Survey six-inch map as an unenclosed ovoid area of roughly 20 metres by 10 metres, positioned on the eastern side of a large circular depression. That depression, measuring approximately 58 metres north to south and nearly 57 metres east to west, slopes unevenly down to a depth of around four metres and appears to be the result of surface quarrying for stone rather than any natural feature. A field boundary runs along its upper edge from south-west to north-east. By the time the revised six-inch map was produced in 1923, the burial ground was still noted, though even then the landscape was giving little away. The survey was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded to the record in August 2011.

On the ground today, there is no visible trace of individual burial plots on the eastern side of the depression. What does survive is a fragment of stone structure at the top of the scarp on the east-south-east edge: a cut sandstone quoin block, which is the dressed corner-stone of a wall, with some very fragmentary walling still attached. About six metres to the north-north-east of this stands a weathered, irregularly shaped stone, 65 centimetres high and 57 centimetres wide, with a circular hole drilled slightly off-centre through its body. The hole measures around 13 centimetres in diameter. What this stone originally marked or served is not recorded. The site is in rough pasture, and a visitor should expect no formal access, no signage, and no obvious ground-level indication of what lies beneath.