No stones, no hollows, no scatter of bones brought to the surface by a plough. It is a place that survives almost entirely in local memory rather than in the landscape itself.

The burial ground is reputed to lie within a rath, a type of circular earthwork enclosure, typically dating from the early medieval period, that was used as a farmstead or settlement. Raths are found across Ireland in their thousands, but they accumulated layered significance long after they fell out of use, and many became associated with the supernatural or with marginal burial. Children's burial grounds of this kind, sometimes called cilliní, were used for unbaptised infants and others who could not, under Catholic practice, be interred in consecrated ground. They appear in ringforts, at ancient monuments, near field boundaries, and along shorelines, places set apart from the ordinary. At Ballynacurragh, the rath itself still exists as a recorded monument, but if the burial ground ever had any physical expression, it has since vanished entirely from the surface.