Measuring roughly 4.5 metres by 2 metres and rising only about 40 centimetres above the surrounding field, its D-shaped outline is easy to miss entirely. What makes it quietly arresting is what it may represent: a burial ground set aside for children, a category of the dead who occupied a complicated and often marginal place in Irish religious and social life for centuries.

The site appears on the 1840 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which recorded it explicitly as a burial ground for children in this area. These informal burial grounds, sometimes called cillíní or killeens, were used across Ireland for unbaptised infants and others who, under the customs of the time, could not be interred in consecrated ground. They were frequently placed at liminal locations, on boundaries, beside water, or within the earthworks of older monuments. Here, the chosen location is the southern edge of a ringfort, one of those circular earthwork enclosures, typically dating from the early medieval period, that dot the Irish countryside in their thousands. The ringfort at Cappanihane carries the Sites and Monuments Record reference LI038-127001. The raised D-shaped area on its inner southern margin is interpreted as possibly the physical remains of the burial ground indicated on that Victorian-era map.

The site sits in ordinary agricultural pasture, so access depends on land ownership and condition underfoot. The ringfort itself is the navigational landmark; the small raised feature lies on its southern side, immediately inside what would have been the entrance. Those familiar with reading earthworks in grazed fields will find the slight elevation visible, though it demands some patience and a decent eye for ground-level variation. There is no formal signage or managed access. The 1840 OS six-inch maps, now widely available through the historic mapping resources of the OSi and related archives, are worth consulting beforehand; seeing the cartographer's notation for yourself adds a particular quality to standing beside a feature so quietly and specifically recorded.