The site is recorded as a children's burial ground, a type of place known in Irish as a cillín, where infants and unbaptised children were interred outside the sanctioned rites of the Church. These were liminal places, neither fully sacred nor fully profane, chosen for their antiquity and apartness rather than for any official blessing.

The first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map shows the ruined church enclosed within a trapezoidal boundary, labelled simply as "Burial Ground". Some of the stones still visible within the ruined walls may function as burial markers, though the passage of time and the collapse of the structure make it difficult to read them with certainty. What is more striking is what the Ordnance Survey Namebooks record: that children were still being buried within the walls of the church itself. This was not uncommon in Irish practice, where the roofless shell of a medieval ruin could serve as a kind of informal consecrated space, close enough to hallowed ground to offer some comfort, yet outside the formal parish cemetery. The continuity of the site as a place of child burial, even into the period of detailed cartographic recording, says something about how communities negotiated grief and religious obligation in ways that official structures did not always accommodate.