It is known locally as An Chill Bheag, meaning the little church, or Reilig na bPáistí, the children's burial ground. No church stands here, and there is no formal enclosure on every side; only modern field walls define the southern and western edges, while a natural scarp forms the northern boundary and the rest is simply open. What marks it as a place of burial are the numerous small set stones still visible at the surface, indicating graves oriented east to west in the Christian tradition, with a particular concentration in the south-west corner. A single small wooden cross was also recorded there.

Sites like this are found throughout Ireland and are known variously as cillíní, children's burial grounds, or suicides' graves. They occupy a quietly particular place in Irish social and religious history. For much of the post-medieval period, Catholic ecclesiastical custom did not permit the burial in consecrated ground of unbaptised infants, and so families brought their dead children to marginal places, often ancient or liminal in character, perceived to exist outside the boundaries of formal parish life. The edges of townlands, the banks of streams, and old ruined enclosures were common choices. The dimensions recorded here, seventeen metres long and eleven and a half metres wide, suggest a site that served its community over a considerable period, and the density of stones around the south-western end points to sustained, if quiet, use. Tim Robinson, whose fieldwork informed the 1985 record, documented the site as part of his meticulous mapping of Connemara, work that brought a great deal of local knowledge into written form for the first time.