One where the dead were, for centuries, exclusively children is something else entirely. On a low rise of ground in County Limerick, overlooking the River Shannon some 320 metres to the south, a narrow rectangular plot beside the ruins of St. Margaret's Church once served as a cillin, the Irish term for an unconsecrated or informal burial ground reserved for those who, under Catholic canon law, could not be interred in hallowed ground. Unbaptised infants and stillborn children were among the most common occupants of such places, quietly laid to rest at the margins of ordinary parish life. Here, no memorials are visible, no low stones mark individual graves, and the boundary of the site is defined only by a faint scarp or rise of earth.

The site's history is documented, if sparsely. The Ordnance Survey Letters of 1840 recorded that 'still-born children only are interred here at present', suggesting the ground was understood at the time to have a specific and continuing purpose. Yet the historian Begley, writing in 1906, described it as being in a fair state of preservation while noting that it 'appears to have been never used as a burial-ground', a curious observation that points to how thoroughly the site concealed its own past. The OS 25-inch map depicts the graveyard as a narrow rectangular area of roughly 20 metres north to south and 68 metres east to west, wrapping around the east, south, and west sides of the church. It is possible, according to the site record compiled by Caimin O'Brien, that the ground was never used for anything other than the burial of children.

The site sits in the civil parish of Pubblebrien, and the low earthen scarp that once defined the graveyard boundary remains the only reliable visual indicator of where the plot lay. Visitors approaching St. Margaret's Church should expect a landscape that gives little away; the absence of headstones or surface markers is itself the defining characteristic of this place rather than a sign of neglect. The proximity to the Shannon means the ground can be soft underfoot, particularly in wetter months. What remains is less a conventional burial ground and more a quietly held piece of ground, carrying a history that was always more likely to be passed on by local knowledge than by anything carved in stone.