No headstones, no enclosing wall that announces itself, no inscription of any kind. What survives is local memory and a slight depression in the earth.

The site is described as a killeen, a word used across Ireland for informal burial grounds associated with unbaptised infants and, in some cases, stillborn children or others considered ineligible for consecrated ground under Catholic practice. These places occupy a peculiar position in the Irish landscape: numerous, quietly documented, and yet rarely marked in any conventional way. This particular killeen is said by the landowner to be connected to the adjacent rath, a ringfort of the kind built across Ireland from the early medieval period onwards, typically as a defended farmstead enclosed by one or more earthen banks. The precise relationship between the killeen and the rath is not recorded beyond that association. The most likely location, according to what has been noted, is the north-north-east sector of the site, where a small hollow appears to have been squared off on two sides, suggesting at some point a deliberate, if modest, act of enclosure or demarcation.