No mound, no marker, no outline in the grass signals its presence. What survives in the record is the fact of its existence and its location within a ring-barrow, one of the circular earthwork enclosures that dot the Irish landscape and typically date to the Bronze Age. That a children's burial ground came to occupy this earlier monument is itself quietly telling.

The practice of burying unbaptised children, or those who died before being received into the Church, in unconsecrated ground was widespread in Ireland for centuries. These sites, known in Irish as cillíní, were often placed at the margins of the known world, literally and symbolically: at field boundaries, on the edges of bogs, beside ancient earthworks, or in the ruins of older structures. Using a pre-existing ring-barrow as the location for such a burial ground placed the children's graves at a threshold, neither within the Christian community nor entirely outside human memory. At Pollacorragune, the ring-barrow that contains the site is recorded separately, suggesting the burial ground was understood as a distinct layer of use laid over something much older.

There is nothing to observe on the ground today. The site retains no visible surface trace, which is not unusual for cillíní, many of which were never formally marked and have been disturbed or simply absorbed back into the landscape over time. The significance of the place lies less in anything a visitor could point to and more in what the record preserves: the knowledge that children were once carried here and quietly left.