Locally, it is known as a children's burial ground, one of many such sites scattered across Ireland that speak to a practice born of grief and theological exclusion. Known in Irish as a cillín (the diminutive of cill, meaning church or cell), these unofficial burial places were used for unbaptised infants, who, under Catholic doctrine as it was historically interpreted, could not be interred in consecrated ground. Rather than leave their children without any marked resting place, families buried them in liminal spots: old earthworks, coastal dunes, field boundaries, and, as here, the corners and margins of the everyday landscape.

The place has not been forgotten entirely. The field immediately to the north of the road junction carries the Irish name Páirc na Leanbh, meaning the field of the children, a name that has outlasted whatever formal record or ceremony may once have accompanied burials here. That a field name should preserve the memory where no other marker survives is not unusual in rural Ireland, where townland and field names have long functioned as a kind of informal archive, holding onto associations that might otherwise disappear entirely. The triangular shape of the burial ground itself is likely a product of the road junction rather than any deliberate design, suggesting that the ground was simply whatever was available, unclaimed, and felt appropriate.