Today, neither the church nor any grave-markers survive. What remains is a low, worn wall enclosing a roughly circular space of just over eighteen metres by fourteen metres, set within a larger D-shaped enclosure that backs onto a stream along its straight northeastern side. No inscriptions, no headstones, no named dead. The only internal feature is a line of stones that may once have formed a plinth, though what it supported is unknown.

The absence of grave-markers is not simply a matter of time and weathering. Local tradition holds that this ground was used, at least until the end of the nineteenth century, for the burial of unbaptised infants. These were children who died before receiving the sacrament of baptism and who, under Catholic theological teaching of the period, could not be interred in consecrated ground. The places set aside for them, known in Irish as cillíní (singular cillín), are found across Ireland, often at the margins of fields, beside boundaries, on old ecclesiastical sites, or near water. They were rarely marked and rarely spoken of openly. The enclosure at Clone, with its vanished church and its stream-backed boundary, fits this pattern precisely, a liminal place used for liminal burials.