The Ordnance Survey six-inch maps record the site as "Lisheen", a diminutive of the Irish "lios", meaning a small enclosure or fort, but used in local tradition to denote a children's burial ground, a cillín. There is nothing to see there now. No mound, no scatter of stones, no hollow in the ground. The landscape has closed over it entirely.

The site sits in association with a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead typically dating from the early medieval period, consisting of an earthen or stone bank encircling a domestic area. Children's burial grounds of this kind were used for centuries across Ireland for infants who died unbaptised, since Church law excluded them from consecrated ground. Liminal spaces, places already set apart from the everyday, were frequently chosen: old ringforts, the margins of bogs, the edges of townlands. The name Lisheen preserved here does the work that the ground no longer can, holding the memory of the place even as the physical evidence has disappeared. That a cartographer recorded it at all is the reason we know it existed.