Mapped as a children's burial ground on the 1946 Ordnance Survey six-inch edition, it conforms in most respects to the pattern of a cillín, the term for informal burial sites where unbaptised infants and children were interred outside consecrated ground, often without ceremony or formal markers. The crudely shaped limestone headstones, several now collapsed, are concentrated in the northern half of the enclosure, which measures roughly 64.5 metres north to south and 48.2 metres east to west. But among these modest stones stand three later inscribed markers, and one of them quietly unsettles the site's classification entirely.

That headstone commemorates Charles McCracken, born May 1834, died April 1921. He was, by any reckoning, eighty-six or eighty-seven years old when he died, and his memorial confirms that at least one adult found their way into ground nominally set aside for the unbaptised young. Whether this was a matter of family preference, local custom, or simple practicality is not recorded. The burial ground occupies the western half of what may have been a much earlier ecclesiastical enclosure, a feature that would suggest the site had some sacred or community significance long before it became associated specifically with children's burials. Originally the ground appears to have been unenclosed; a metal rod fence now marks its boundary, and access is through a gateway to the north-north-west.