A few small stones, deliberately set but now almost indistinguishable from the surrounding shore, mark what was once a children's burial ground, known in Irish tradition as a cillín. These informal sites, found across Ireland in their hundreds, were used for centuries to inter unbaptised infants and others considered ineligible for consecrated ground under Catholic practice. They occupy liminal spaces by design: boundaries, shorelines, the margins between one thing and another.

This particular site sits on the eastern bank of a small stream that itself serves as a townland boundary, a threshold doubled. The irregular, unenclosed area retains no wall, no formal marker, nothing to signal to a passing eye what lies beneath or what the place once meant to families who had no other option. The description recorded by Paul Gosling in the Archaeological Inventory of County Galway, published in 1993, is spare precisely because the site itself is spare, reduced over time to a scatter of stones that the tide and the shore seem intent on reclaiming entirely.