There are no inscriptions, no family names, no dates. The stones simply sit in the grass, arranged over an area of about twenty metres across, quietly distinguishing this ground from the fields around it.

The site is known locally as a cillíneach, a term used across Ireland for informal burial grounds where unbaptised children were interred. Catholic theology, for much of Irish history, held that unbaptised infants could not be buried in consecrated ground, and so communities established their own quiet margins for these burials, often in ancient or liminal places: old ringfort enclosures, coastal headlands, or, as here, a ridge above a river valley. The cillíneach at Coonane follows that pattern. Its roughly circular form and elevated position on an east-west ridge suggest it may occupy ground that already carried some sense of significance before its use as a burial place. The plain uninscribed stones mark individual graves, but record nothing further. The identities of those buried here, and the span of years during which the site was in use, are not documented.