Once a cillín, a children's burial ground of the kind found across rural Ireland where unbaptised infants and others excluded from consecrated ground were quietly interred, it has left no visible mark on the landscape. The ground gives nothing away.

According to local information, the burial ground was removed by the landowner during the 1950s. That decade saw considerable change to agricultural land across Ireland, and such sites, often unmarked and legally unprotected at the time, were occasionally cleared without record or ceremony. The enclosure in which it sat still exists, but of the burials themselves, or any surface feature that might once have indicated their presence, nothing survives above ground.

What makes this particular site quietly affecting is precisely its absence. Cillíní were already marginal places, chosen for their liminality, old ringforts, field boundaries, shorelines, spots that sat outside the normal order. This one has passed a further threshold, from a place of informal, sorrowful memory into a location that can only be known about through the persistence of local recollection and its eventual entry into the published archaeological record for North Galway.