The site is unenclosed, roughly twenty metres across in both directions, and sits inside a forestry plantation where recently planted trees have taken root directly within the burial area. A fire-prevention trench bisects the ground, and a modern track cuts past the south-western edge. What remains is quietly legible despite the disturbance: the grave-markers are arranged in north-to-south rows, though the vegetation largely swallows them.

Places like this are known in Irish as cillíní, informal burial grounds used for unbaptised infants and others who could not, under Catholic practice, be interred in consecrated ground. The Ordnance Survey Name Books, compiled in the nineteenth century as part of the mapping of Ireland, recorded this particular site under the townland of Templeno, describing it as an "old small fort which is a noted place for burying children." That description of a fort is telling, because the site shows no trace of ringfort features, the circular earthwork enclosures common across Ireland from the early medieval period. What it does have is a souterrain, a type of underground passage associated with early medieval settlement, typically used for storage or refuge. The entrance, at the south-western exterior of the site, measures just over a metre wide and roughly half a metre high, opening into an earth-tunnelled passage that runs north-eastward and widens slightly as it goes. A depression at the centre of the burial area may indicate that the passage extends further in that direction, though its full extent has not been confirmed. The relationship between the souterrain and the later use of the ground as a children's burial place is not documented, but the pattern of reusing earlier, liminal sites for cillíní is well attested across Ireland.