These were places where unbaptised infants, and sometimes others excluded from consecrated ground, were laid to rest, often at the margins of parishes, in ancient enclosures, or near old raths and ringforts. The practice persisted in rural Ireland well into the twentieth century, driven by the theological position that those who died without baptism could not be buried in church graveyards. The result was a scattered landscape of small, informal burial places, many now barely legible in the fields.

The site at Urraghry sits within an existing enclosure, and what survives is modest: a collection of small set stones concentrated towards the centre, arranged in rows running roughly north-northwest to south-southeast. That alignment indicates the graves themselves were oriented approximately east to west, a pattern consistent with Christian burial tradition even in these unofficial sites. The ground is now much overgrown, and the overall state of preservation is described as poor, which is common for sites of this kind, where there was rarely any formal monument, headstone, or ongoing maintenance to slow the encroachment of vegetation and time.