Roughly seventy-five metres from the shore, set into the overgrown ground, lies a small circular enclosure. Traces of a low surrounding wall survive, with a gap opening to the south-east, and within it a scatter of small boulders and a single pine tree mark the interior. Nothing announces it. Nothing formally identifies it.

Places like this are known in Ireland as cillíní, informal burial grounds used for those who, under Catholic Church practice, were denied consecrated ground. Unbaptised infants were the most common occupants, buried quietly by families in marginal spaces, often at townland boundaries, old ringforts, or coastal hollows, away from the parish churchyard. On Inis Bearachain, the tradition appears to have extended to Famine victims as well, according to information gathered by the writer and cartographer Tim Robinson, whose meticulous documentation of Connemara and the Aran Islands in the 1980s brought many such overlooked sites to wider attention. His 1985 work is the source for what little is recorded here. The site was not physically visited during the compilation of the county inventory, which means the description rests entirely on local knowledge passed through Robinson.

The combination of children and Famine dead in a single enclosure is not unusual for the west of Ireland, where the catastrophe of the 1840s overwhelmed normal burial customs and where remote island communities had limited options. What remains on Inis Bearachain is fragmentary, an eroding wall, a scattering of stones that may or may not be grave markers, and a tree growing quietly among them in a hollow that most visitors to the island would never think to seek out.