Unbaptised infants were the most common occupants of such places, though the desperate circumstances that brought families here varied. The ground at Curry Oughter measures about 23.8 metres across and is defined partly by a low bank of earth and stone with traces of an external fosse, a shallow ditch, and elsewhere by a faint scarp in the terrain.

Most of the burials are marked simply, with small undressed stones set into the ground, some running in a rough north-to-south line toward the south-southwest, others placed seemingly at random. A few slab-lined graves are also visible, where flat stones were arranged to form a rough coffin shape within the earth. Against this prevailing plainness, one well-dressed inscribed headstone stands apart. It commemorates two children, one aged two and the other two-and-a-half, and is dated 1845, the year the Great Famine began to take hold across Ireland. That two children so close in age were buried here in that year carries its own weight, though the headstone itself is unusually formal for a site of this kind. Local knowledge also holds that some adults were interred within the enclosure, though their graves are not identifiable from the surface in any obvious way, which was not uncommon in places used by communities over long periods and outside official record-keeping.