There is no enclosing wall, no formal boundary, nothing to announce it as a burial place except the stones themselves rising quietly from the grass. The site measures roughly sixteen and a half metres east to west and just under eleven metres north to south, an unenclosed plot that sits exposed on the ridge top, about a hundred metres from the ruins of Rathgorgin Castle.

Places like this are known in Ireland as cillíní, informal burial grounds used for unbaptised infants and others who were excluded from consecrated ground under Catholic ecclesiastical law. They tend to occupy liminal locations, places that were neither quite secular nor quite sacred, and an esker ridge, a long sinuous mound of gravel deposited by glacial meltwater, would have carried its own sense of separateness from the settled landscape below. What makes this particular site distinctive is one of its grave markers. Among the small limestone slabs, a single stone stands out as something repurposed: the top mullion stone from a trefoil-headed window, almost certainly salvaged from Rathgorgin Castle's tower house. A mullion is the vertical or central dividing element of a window opening, and a trefoil head, shaped into three rounded lobes, was a decorative form common in late medieval Irish tower houses. That a piece of carved architectural stonework from a crumbling fortification was carried to this hillside and laid over a child's grave says something quiet and particular about how people moved through a landscape, and what they chose to carry with them.