Known locally as a children's burial ground, it also bears the physical signature of a ringfort, the circular enclosed farmsteads that were built across Ireland in their thousands during the early medieval period. The site is roughly 41 metres across internally, defined by a slight bank about two metres wide and a surrounding fosse, or ditch, that reaches up to three metres in width. It is heavily overgrown with scrub, and a roadway cuts across its western edge, which has not helped efforts to understand what exactly lies within.

The overlap between ringforts and burial grounds is not unusual in Ireland. Ringforts were long regarded in folk memory as charged, liminal places, associated with the fairy world and best left undisturbed. That quality of apartness made them, in certain communities, a logical choice for burials that could not take place in consecrated ground. Children who died before baptism were among those most commonly interred in such spots, in sites known as cillíní or killeens. Whether that tradition applies here is genuinely uncertain. A survey carried out by Davies in 1942 noted what appeared to be one or two graves within the enclosure, but the dense vegetation made verification impossible, and the question remained open. The site had not been confirmed as a burial ground in any formal sense as of the early 1990s, when it was catalogued for County Offaly.