Known in Irish as a cillín (plural cilliní), these small, informal cemeteries were used for centuries to inter unbaptised infants, and occasionally others considered ineligible for burial in consecrated ground. The Catholic doctrine that unbaptised children could not enter heaven meant that parishes would not permit their burial in churchyards, and so families turned instead to liminal spaces: old ringfort banks, island edges, cliff tops, and townland boundaries. Kilnacrandy, whatever its precise configuration on the ground, belongs to this quiet tradition of grief conducted outside official sanction.