No mound, no enclosure, no visible marker survives at the surface. What remains is a tradition, and a line on a map.

The site sits within a ringfort, one of those circular earthwork enclosures built predominantly during the early medieval period as farmsteads or defended homesteads, and which are scattered across the Irish countryside in their thousands. That a children's burial ground should occupy such a space is not unusual in itself. Across Ireland, the sites known as cillíní, or informal burial grounds for unbaptised infants and others excluded from consecrated ground, were often placed at the margins of the settled landscape: old earthworks, field boundaries, liminal spots already set apart from everyday use. The association between ringforts and these burial grounds recurs frequently enough to suggest a deliberate, if unspoken, logic. At Bunnaconeen, the third edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, published in 1920, marks the location plainly as a children's burial ground, and local tradition supports that identification. Beyond that, the ground itself offers nothing to the eye.