These sites, found across Ireland from early medieval times through to the twentieth century, were used to inter unbaptised infants and others considered ineligible for consecrated ground. The markers at Corralea are no longer in their original positions; they have been cast aside, displaced from the ringfort enclosure they once accompanied, leaving only the faintest physical trace of what was once a place of quiet, unofficial mourning.

The ringfort itself, a roughly circular earthwork enclosure of the kind built throughout Ireland from the Iron Age into the early medieval period, very nearly disappeared altogether. The landowner had planned to level it, a fate that befell countless such monuments during the twentieth century as agricultural pressure on the land intensified. The rath survived only because someone intervened in time, informing the owner that the enclosure contained a children's burial ground. That knowledge was enough. The decision to spare the site means that both the ringfort and the displaced grave-markers, however scattered, remain part of the landscape of Corralea rather than lost beneath it.