It measures around twenty metres at its widest, bounded by a low wall of sod-covered rubble no more than thirty centimetres high, and by a broad eroded scarp on the downslope eastern side. A short entrance passage projects outward from the northwest, flanked by the same rubble walling. Nothing about it announces itself, and yet local tradition holds that this was a cillín, a children's burial ground, one of many such sites scattered across Ireland where unbaptised infants and others excluded from consecrated ground were interred, usually in secrecy and without formal ceremony.

The enclosure does not appear on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1838, which suggests it was either overlooked by surveyors or not yet in active use, or simply not considered worth recording at the time. By the 1922 edition of the same map series, it is marked, indicated by a dashed oval line, the cartographic convention that signals something noted but not fully classified. Inside, the level ground is strewn with loose stone, and at the centre a small heap of stones gathers at the base of a clump of hazel trees. Local information records that a grave-shaped feature once lay in the interior, though it is no longer visible. The perimeter is ringed thinly with hazel, blackthorn, and hawthorn, species that recur at these sites across Ireland, their presence sometimes thought to be deliberate planting, sometimes simply the result of long undisturbed ground.