The name itself is the first clue to what this place once was: a cillín, the term used across Ireland for informal burial grounds where unbaptised infants and others excluded from consecrated ground were laid to rest, quietly and without ceremony, in marginal or liminal spots on the landscape.

The site is roughly subrectangular in shape, measuring approximately 20 metres east to west and 13 metres north to south, rising about a metre at its southern edge where a scarp marks the boundary. A north-south field wall defines the western perimeter, though elsewhere the edges are obscured by spoil. Some grave-markers remain visible above the scrub. The 1921 Ordnance Survey six-inch map names it explicitly as Killanure Children's Burial Ground, a designation that reflects both the function of such places and the communities that maintained them. By the time it was recorded in the Record of Monuments and Places in 1996, the label had been simplified to the more neutral Burial Ground, a small administrative change that quietly erases the particular history the earlier name carried.