It is a cillín, an informal burial site for unbaptised children, of the sort that once existed quietly at the margins of parishes across Ireland. Children who died before baptism were, under Catholic teaching, excluded from consecrated ground, and so communities created their own places for them, usually in liminal locations: old ringforts, townland boundaries, the edges of fields. These sites were rarely documented officially, which makes the appearance of this one on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1841, plainly labelled "burial ground for children", an unusual act of cartographic acknowledgement.

The 1841 OS map shows the burial area marked with a broken line, indicating its horseshoe shape, tucked into the south-east quadrant of a rectangular field in the Connello Upper barony. The field itself is enclosed by an earth and stone bank standing about 1.4 metres high, a boundary that would have been a recognisable feature of the working farmland around it. Denis Power, who compiled the record uploaded in August 2011, noted that the site sits in pasture on the slope. Beyond what the map and the earthwork convey, the documentary record is sparse, as it tends to be with cillíní, places that existed through community practice rather than institutional record-keeping.

Access today is difficult. Dense overgrowth covers most of the field, and the only relatively open approach is from the west side, where a small pond now sits. Visitors who do find their way to the perimeter are unlikely to be able to enter the burial area itself. The enclosing bank is the most visible surviving feature from the outside. The horseshoe arrangement within, if it can be glimpsed at all, is best traced against the 1841 map rather than on the ground. The site is on private farmland, so any approach should be made with that in mind.