That one marker is all that announces a site once used to inter unbaptised infants, a practice that persisted across rural Ireland for centuries and left behind a quiet, scattered geography of such places, known in Irish as cillíní.

The burial ground sits within a cashel, a type of early medieval stone-walled enclosure, typically circular, that served as a defended farmstead or settlement. The association between cillíní and pre-existing ancient monuments is common across Ireland; families who could not bury unbaptised children in consecrated ground often chose liminal places already set apart from ordinary life, sites that existed on the edges of the social and sacred landscape. McCaffrey, writing in 1952, recorded this particular site and noted its location within the cashel, but even by that point the ground had clearly not been maintained in any active way. The intervening decades have done little to reverse that.