It belongs to a category of place known in Ireland as a cillín, a term for unconsecrated or informally consecrated ground where unbaptised children, and sometimes others considered outside the bounds of formal Catholic burial rites, were interred. These sites are scattered across the Irish landscape in their hundreds, tucked into field corners, beside ancient earthworks, or at the margins of bogs. They were used quietly, out of necessity, by families who had no other option under the theological and social conventions of earlier centuries.

The practice of burying unbaptised infants in separate ground was rooted in the doctrine that those who died without baptism could not enter consecrated cemeteries. In rural Ireland, this remained a lived reality well into the twentieth century. Families would carry an infant to a known cillín, often at night and without ceremony, the grief entirely private. Many such sites occupy ground with much older associations, pre-Christian or early medieval, and it is not unusual to find a cillín overlapping with a ringfort, a souterrain, or an early ecclesiastical enclosure. Whether that is true of Corraveggaun is not currently documented in any accessible public record, and the specific history of this particular ground, its extent, any visible surface features, and the period during which it was actively used, remains unrecorded in detail.