The site is known as Lios na Tríonóide, and it is a cillín, the type of unconsecrated burial ground used across Ireland for centuries to inter unbaptised infants and others excluded from consecrated churchyards. That exclusion was theological rather than social; families still came, still mourned, and, at this site in particular, still planted.

The ground itself is roughly rectangular, measuring around 19 metres on its longer axis and 25 metres across, and sits slightly raised above the interior of the enclosure around it. On the south-southeast and west-southwest sides, traces of a boulder revetment, a low retaining wall of large stones, help define its boundary. The grave markers visible inside are arranged so that the burials run east-west, the traditional Christian orientation even in grounds that sat outside the formal Church. Local tradition holds that Lios na Tríonóide remained in use into the 1930s, which is notably recent for a site of this type. The trees and bushes growing within the enclosure are not incidental; relatives of the buried children planted them, and they remain as a kind of living, unwritten memorial that has outlasted any formal record of who lies beneath.