A ringfort, one of the circular earthwork enclosures built across Ireland during the early medieval period, typically as a defended farmstead, became in local memory the site of a children's burial ground. These burial grounds, known in Irish as cillíní, were used for centuries to inter unbaptised infants and others considered ineligible for consecrated ground. That such burials took place within a pre-existing monument, already ancient when the practice began, is not especially rare, but it gives the site a particular kind of layered gravity.

The connection between the ringfort and the burial ground rests entirely on local tradition. No archaeological excavation has confirmed burials here, and no physical trace of the cillín survives above ground. The ringfort itself is recorded in the archaeological inventory of North Galway compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling, published in 1999, which notes the folk memory of the site's secondary use without offering further elaboration. That absence of elaboration is itself telling. Across Ireland, cillíní were quietly maintained within communities for generations, their locations known and respected locally but rarely documented in any formal way. When the tradition faded, many sites like this one lost all surface evidence and survive now only in the kind of oral knowledge that eventually finds its way into an inventory footnote.