A dense growth of gorse has made the site inaccessible to surveyors, which is itself a strange kind of preservation: the place is known, located, described by local memory, and yet physically unreachable.

What the site is said to contain makes it worth knowing about. Locally described as an unenclosed burial area, roughly circular in plan, it holds rows of uninscribed upright grave-markers. This identifies it as a cillín, the Irish term for a children's burial ground, sometimes called a killeen. These sites were used, typically from medieval times through to the twentieth century, to inter unbaptised infants, who under Catholic doctrine could not be buried in consecrated ground. They were rarely marked by name or date, and the plain upright stones here are entirely consistent with that tradition. The circular plan may reflect great age; many such enclosures follow the form of much older sacred or liminal spaces, placed at boundaries, on shorelines, at the edges of parishes and parishes of the mind.

The spit at Cromane is a narrow tongue of land reaching into Castlemaine Harbour in County Kerry, and the burial ground sits at its most landward point, where the spit meets the mainland. Whether the gorse has thinned in recent years is not easily known, but the site should be approached with that obstruction in mind.