Somewhere in the fields of Corballis in County Kildare, children were buried without ceremony, their graves unmarked and their ground largely untilled out of a mixture of reverence and unease. The site belongs to a category of burial place known in Irish as a cillín, a place set aside for those who died unbaptised and were therefore excluded from consecrated ground under Catholic practice. Infants, stillborns, and sometimes others on the margins of ecclesiastical acceptance were interred in these liminal spaces, often near ruined chapels or ancient enclosures, places that carried a sense of sacred age even when the Church no longer sanctioned them.

By 1838, a note recorded that there had formerly been a graveyard here, already fallen into disuse and only traceable at that point. Writing between 1903 and 1905, a researcher named Fitzgerald described the ground around the ruined building as land that was never tilled, with locals attributing sanctity to the structure itself, believed in tradition to have been a chapel in ancient times. Fitzgerald noted that although no graves were then visible, unbaptised children continued to be interred there. The burial ground appears on the twenty-five-inch Ordnance Survey map as a semi-circular area, bisected to the north by an east-west public road, with the associated church ruin sitting just beyond that road. That curved shape is significant; circular and semi-circular enclosures of this kind often suggest early medieval origins, where the form of the ground itself preserves the memory of a much older sacred boundary. The site sits in a landscape with some density of history: Corballis Castle lies roughly 310 metres to the west-northwest, and Corballis House about 275 metres to the south.

Today, nothing survives above ground. The site was levelled and the area ploughed, and aerial photography confirms no surface trace remains. What was once a quietly maintained piece of ground, avoided by the plough out of local feeling rather than legal protection, has been absorbed entirely into the surrounding farmland. The semi-circle on the old map is the clearest record of what was once there.