Wire fencing and recent field boundaries mark its edges, and the interior is heavily overgrown, the ground beneath the plant debris uneven with low burial mounds and a scatter of low upright stones. It is, by any measure, an easy place to miss, and yet what lies beneath that tangle of vegetation represents one of the more quietly sorrowful categories of site in the Irish landscape.

This is a cillín, the Irish term for an unofficial burial ground used for those who, under Catholic doctrine, could not be interred in consecrated ground. The most common occupants were infants who died before baptism, and the landowner here confirms that tradition, noting it served as a burial place for unbaptised children and possibly adults. Cilliní were typically placed at liminal spots, field margins, ancient earthworks, or in this case a sloped pasture overlooking the bay, locations that sat outside the formal boundaries of parish life in much the same way as those buried there were considered to sit outside formal religious community. Documented by Dennehy in 1997, this particular ground had already been out of use for at least a century at that point. The rectangular area measures roughly 22 metres north to south and 14 metres east to west, modest dimensions that nonetheless encompass generations of grief carried quietly and without ceremony to the hillside.