There are no headstones, no kerbing, no visible markers of any kind. The only indication that this is anything other than ordinary pasture is a low, scarped edge curving around the eastern and south-western sides of a subtly raised, sub-circular area, measuring just 3.7 metres across. It is the kind of place that demands you already know what you are looking at.

This is a cillín, the Irish term for an informal, unconsecrated burial ground used for unbaptised infants and, in some cases, others considered ineligible for burial in consecrated ground under Catholic Church custom. Such sites are scattered across Ireland in their thousands, often sited at liminal spots: old field boundaries, hillsides, the margins of townlands. The Cappanouk example appears on the 1840 Ordnance Survey map under the name Kylenanny Burial Ground, suggesting it was recognised and named at the time of Ireland's first systematic mapping. By the 1927 revision, the OS recorded it as disused, a designation that tells its own quiet story about the slow fading of a practice that was never officially sanctioned to begin with. The site was compiled for the archaeological record by Denis Power and uploaded in July 2013.

The site sits immediately south-west of a field boundary in pasture, so access depends on the goodwill of the landowner and a tolerance for uneven, sloping ground. There is nothing to orient a casual visitor once on site: the scarped edge, at around 0.3 metres high and 2.1 metres wide, is subtle enough to read as a natural feature if you are not actively looking for it. The absence of grave markers is consistent with cillíní across Ireland, where the deliberate or circumstantial lack of memorialisation means that individual burials are essentially invisible to the surface eye. What remains is the shape of the place itself, and its name, preserved first in cartographic ink and now in the archaeological record.