The site belongs to a category known in Irish as a cillín, an informal burial ground used for unbaptised infants and others excluded from consecrated ground under Catholic Church practice. These places were often tucked into liminal spaces, old raths, shorelines, or boundary ditches, locations that sat outside the ordinary social and religious order. At Liss, nothing visible remains on the surface to mark what was once there.

The ringfort itself, recorded as GA058-069, is the kind of enclosed settlement that was common across Ireland during the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries, typically consisting of a circular bank and ditch surrounding a farmstead. That such an enclosure was later repurposed, or quietly understood, as a burial place for the very young is consistent with a pattern seen across the country, where pre-Christian or early Christian earthworks were drawn into folk memory as appropriate, if unofficial, ground for those who could not be buried in a churchyard. What is known about the Liss site comes from local information rather than any excavation or physical survey, and the absence of visible surface trace means the burial ground survives, if at all, only in the ground itself and in the memory of the surrounding community.