Killeens, sometimes spelled cillíní, were unconsecrated plots used to inter those who could not, under Catholic Church practice, be buried in consecrated ground. The unbaptised, stillborn infants most commonly, along with suicides, shipwreck victims of unknown faith, and occasionally strangers, were laid here quietly and without ceremony. These places were rarely marked, rarely spoken of openly, and are now frequently lost to undergrowth or overlooked entirely. That Oughty retains one still identified as such is itself a quiet curiosity.