There are no headstones here, no inscribed names, no visible markers of any kind. Yet local tradition holds that this was a place of burial, specifically for unbaptised infants, making it one of many such sites scattered across Ireland known as cillíní or killeens. These were informal, unconsecrated burial grounds used for children who died before baptism and were therefore, under the theological conventions of the time, excluded from consecrated church ground. Families found their own solutions, and prehistoric earthworks, boundary ditches, and liminal spaces at the edges of fields were frequently chosen, places already set apart from the ordinary world.

The site sits on or near the outer bank of a ring-barrow, a type of prehistoric funerary monument consisting of a low circular mound enclosed by a ditch and an outer bank. Ring-barrows belong broadly to the Bronze Age tradition of burial monuments, though their use and significance varied considerably. Local knowledge, passed down rather than recorded in stone, identifies the southern arc of this particular ring-barrow's outer bank as the area used for infant burials. The choice of such a location would not have been unusual. Prehistoric monuments carried an ambiguity in the folk imagination, neither entirely of the living world nor entirely foreign to the dead, and that liminality made them quietly suitable for burials that could not take place in the churchyard. A single hawthorn tree grows close by, and in Irish tradition the hawthorn has its own associations with boundaries, the otherworld, and places that deserve a certain careful respect.