The northern end of the field contains what local tradition identifies as a children's burial ground, one of many such sites scattered across Ireland known by the Irish term cillín, informal burial places used for unbaptised infants and others excluded from consecrated ground. These sites were rarely marked or officially recorded, and many have survived only in local memory.

The first hint that something lay beneath the surface here came not from any deliberate investigation but from agricultural machinery. Writing in 1987, O'Connell and Korff noted that human bones were disturbed during deep ploughing of the field below a nearby cross, and that further bones came to light in the field opposite when the road was widened. The cross itself, a recorded monument, stands in the same field as the burial ground, suggesting the two features may have been understood together by those who used this place. A graveslab, recorded some 140 metres to the north-east, is said to have originally stood in the field across the road from the cross, hinting at a broader cluster of markers and meaning that once organised this otherwise unremarkable stretch of farmland. Much of what is known comes from Mr G. Darcy, whose local knowledge anchors what the ground itself can no longer easily show.