The interior of the rath, a type of enclosed farmstead whose raised earthen banks were built throughout early medieval Ireland, appears entirely featureless today. Yet local memory records that children were laid to rest here, and that the practice continued as recently as the 1940s.

The burial of unbaptised infants and young children in unconsecrated ground was common across Ireland for centuries, a consequence of Catholic doctrine that excluded those who died without baptism from burial in churchyards. Raths, ancient earthworks, and other liminal spaces on the margins of settled land were frequently chosen for this purpose. These places, known variously as cillíní or ceallúnaigh depending on the region, existed quietly outside official record, maintained instead by the knowledge of local families who knew precisely where the ground held their dead. At Dooros, the rath itself, catalogued as GA132-012, served this function, with burials continuing into living memory within the twentieth century.