The ground holds no visible trace of what is believed to be buried there, no stone, no mound, no marker of any kind. Yet the place-names themselves carry the weight of the story. The townland name and the site's correct Irish designation, Lisín na Caf­fach, together point toward the likely presence of a children's burial ground, a cillín, the kind of informal, unconsecrated plot where, for centuries across rural Ireland, unbaptised infants were quietly interred outside the boundaries of sanctioned church burial.

The site sits within an oval enclosure, a lis or ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead common across early medieval Ireland, typically defined by a raised earthen bank. The pairing of a cillín with a pre-existing enclosure is not unusual; such ancient earthworks were often chosen as burial places for children precisely because they occupied a liminal space, outside the parish graveyard, outside the ordinary rhythms of the community, yet still set apart from the open field. What makes this particular site notable is the absence of any surface evidence in the interior. The ground does not announce itself. It is the name alone, carefully preserved in the Irish-language placename tradition, that keeps the memory alive.