On the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1922, the word 'Graves' is written alongside the feature, which is named 'David's Fort', a designation that hints at some older, half-remembered association with occupation or defence. Beneath that cartographic label, however, lies something quieter and more poignant: a local tradition that the mound was used for the burial of children.

The mound itself may date to prehistory, and its original purpose, if it was indeed a burial mound, is unknown. What the 1922 map records is likely a later, folk use of the site, one that fits a widespread Irish practice of burying unbaptised infants in liminal places, away from consecrated ground. These informal burial grounds, sometimes called cillíní or cilliní, were often located at already-ancient features in the landscape, places that seemed set apart, neither fully domestic nor fully sacred in the Christian sense. A prehistoric mound would have suited that purpose well. Writing in 1969, Aldridge noted the local reputation of this particular mound as a place of children's burial, though no graves are now visible at the surface.