This is a cillín, the Irish term for an unconsecrated burial ground where, for centuries, unbaptised infants and others excluded from the rites of the Church were quietly laid to rest. The graves here are marked not with cut headstones but with slabs, boulders, and roughly square stone settings, the kind of low, unassuming memorials that can easily read as natural ground if you do not know what you are looking at.

The site was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1838 simply as "Grave Yard", which suggests it was known and recognised at that time, even if already set apart from ordinary parish burial practice. By the 1921 edition of the same map, the annotation had changed to "Grave Yd. (Disused)", a small cartographic note that carries considerable weight. The ground itself is roughly triangular, measuring approximately 14.3 metres on its longer axis, bounded on two sides by field boundaries and on a third by a stream. At the northern end of the interior there is a crude altar, and on it, a researcher named Aldridge noted in 1969 the presence of a cross-inscribed stone. The combination of an altar and a cross-marked stone within a children's burial ground is not straightforward to interpret; these sites often occupied a liminal space in local religious life, neither fully within the Church's authority nor entirely outside communal devotion.

The site sits in genuinely difficult terrain, and the stream and field boundaries that define its edges are likely the most reliable way to orientate yourself once in the general area. The graves themselves are unobtrusive, and the altar at the northern end, though described as crude, is the clearest structural feature to look for.