The word refers to a small, unconsecrated burial ground, typically used for unbaptised infants and occasionally for others considered outside the formal rites of the Catholic Church. These places occupy a strange middle ground in Irish tradition, neither fully sacred nor wholly forgotten, quietly maintained by local memory long after the burials themselves ceased.

Killeens are found across Ireland, most numerous in the west, and they reflect the intersection of pre-Christian burial custom and later Catholic practice around liminal categories of the dead. Boheh itself is a place with deep ceremonial associations: a nearby decorated rock, known as Saint Patrick's Chair, is the site of a remarkable annual solar alignment in which the setting sun appears to roll down the northern ridge of Croagh Patrick when viewed from the stone. Whether the killeen at this location has any connection to the broader ritual landscape of the area is not recorded, but its presence in such a layered landscape is quietly suggestive.

Because the source material for this particular site remains sparse, the finer details of the killeen, its extent, its condition, or how long it remained in use, are not currently available. What is known is simply that it was recorded, that it exists within one of the more archaeologically dense townlands in the west of Ireland, and that it carries the particular quietness these small burial grounds tend to accumulate over time.