The markers are uninscribed, their arrangement follows no discernible alignment, and three of them sit outside the boundary of the enclosure altogether, as if the ground simply ran out of space, or the rules governing such things were never strictly observed.

The site sits within an enclosure and measures roughly thirteen metres north to south and eleven metres east to west, a modest and poorly preserved area that archaeologists have tentatively identified as a cillín burial ground. A cillín, sometimes anglicised as a children's burial ground or CBG, is a category of unofficial cemetery found widely across Ireland, typically used for unbaptised infants and others who, under older Catholic practice, were excluded from consecrated ground. These sites tend to be small, discreet, and unmarked in any formal sense, often located at boundaries, on ancient enclosures, or at the edges of townlands, which makes the plain limestone slabs at Carrownakib entirely consistent with what such places looked like in use. The absence of inscription is not neglect so much as convention; families knew where their dead lay, and the stones served as markers rather than memorials in the monumental sense.