Local tradition holds that it exists; a physical inspection found nothing. That gap between what people remember and what can actually be seen is, in its own quiet way, the whole story.

The burial ground at Gorteenlahard belongs to a category of site found throughout Ireland known as a cillín, a place where unbaptised children, and sometimes others considered ineligible for consecrated ground, were laid to rest outside the formal boundaries of the Church. These sites were often unmarked, unregistered, and maintained largely through local memory rather than any official record. A cross-inscribed stone, if it was ever there, would have served as one of the few gestures toward permanence in an otherwise deliberately unacknowledged landscape. Whether it was removed, buried, or simply missed during inspection is unknown. What the local account preserves is the knowledge that someone, at some point, thought the place worth marking.