It is easy to miss, defined only by a low stony scarp, the remnants of what may once have been a wall, that barely rises above the surrounding ground. Yet according to local tradition, this modest feature served a quietly significant purpose: it was a burial place for unbaptised babies.

A rath is a circular earthen enclosure, typically of early medieval date, built as a defended farmstead. The bank here survives clearly enough that the platform inside it can be located and measured. The burial ground occupies the south-western quadrant, pressed against the inner face of the rath bank. Sites like this are known across Ireland as cillíní, informal burial grounds used for those who could not be interred in consecrated ground under Catholic Church practice. Unbaptised infants were the most common occupants, excluded on theological grounds from the rites of Christian burial. Families found their own solutions, often choosing places that already carried a sense of age or sanctity, ancient enclosures like this one among them. The reuse of a rath for such a purpose reflects a layering of significance across centuries that archaeological survey alone cannot fully recover.