There are no headstones, no formal enclosure, no inscription cut into stone to confirm what local tradition has long maintained: that this is a children's burial ground, a place where the very young were laid to rest quietly, and largely without record.

Sites like this one belong to a wider, sorrowful tradition in Irish rural life. Children who died before baptism were typically excluded from consecrated ground under Catholic practice, and so communities created their own burial places, often at the margins of ecclesiastical sites, ringforts, or ancient earthworks. These grounds are sometimes called cillíní, from the Irish word for a small church or cell, and they appear in almost every county, usually unmarked and known only through local memory passed from one generation to the next. The Leitrim More site follows that pattern: nothing visible breaks the surface of the ground except a single modern memorial, placed to mark the death of a child in 1949. That one stone, relatively recent and deliberately placed, is the sole physical anchor for a memory that otherwise exists only in local knowledge. The site was brought to wider attention through Dr C. Cunniffe.

The absence of grave-markers is itself part of the story here. Across Ireland, hundreds of cillíní survive in exactly this condition, their locations preserved in oral tradition while the ground above them shows nothing. The north side of a church, considered less sacred than the south, was a common choice for such burials, a detail that gives the Leitrim More site a quiet geographical logic. The single 1949 memorial suggests that the practice, or at least the memory of it, persisted well into the twentieth century.