These sites, known in Irish as ceallúnaigh (singular ceallúnach), were liminal places where infants who died before baptism could be laid to rest outside the consecrated ground of parish cemeteries. Catholic doctrine of the period denied such children a formal church burial, and so communities found their own solutions, often returning to the margins of older, pre-Christian landscapes: the edges of raths, the banks of rivers, or the thresholds of ancient monuments.

The rath itself, a type of circular earthwork enclosure built in early medieval Ireland and typically associated with a farmstead or settlement, lent the site a quality that may have made it feel appropriate for this purpose: old, set apart, neither wholly of the living world nor entirely forgotten. In the 1940s, local memory recorded that unbaptised children were buried in what was then described simply as 'an old fort' on land belonging to a man named Tom Daly. That account, preserved in the Schools Manuscript collection, captures the quiet persistence of the practice well into living memory at that time. Dennehy, writing in 1997, noted that the ceallúnach had gone out of use in the late nineteenth century, though it had been brought back into use on at least one occasion in the mid-nineteenth century, suggesting the community returned to it when circumstances demanded.

The site is not formally demarcated, and the stones that may indicate the burial ground are partially obscured by vegetation. Visitors should be aware they are entering a rath, which is a protected monument, and should treat the ground with corresponding care.