The land has been levelled, and there is no visible evidence at ground level of what local tradition insists was once there: a burial ground for children, contained within the interior of a possible rath. A rath, for those unfamiliar with the term, is a circular earthen enclosure, typically of early medieval date, built as a farmstead or defended homestead. That such enclosures were later repurposed as burial grounds for unbaptised infants is not unusual in Ireland; they carried a sense of remove from consecrated ground while still feeling bounded and apart from the ordinary landscape. What is unusual here is how completely the physical evidence has vanished, leaving only the placename and local memory to mark what happened.

The placename itself does the quiet work of preservation. "Lisheenpastia" carries within it the Irish word "lisín", a diminutive of "lios", meaning a small fort or enclosure, and the second element likely refers to the pastoral or the buried, depending on interpretation. Local tradition supports what the name suggests: that this was a cillín, an informal burial place used for those excluded from churchyard burial, most often unbaptised infants. The site does not stand alone in this landscape. A second children's burial ground, also set within a possible rath, lies approximately 180 metres to the south-south-east, and a further possible rath sits around 190 metres to the south-east. The clustering of these features in such a compact area is quietly striking, suggesting a landscape in which these enclosures held a particular meaning for generations of people navigating grief and the boundaries of official religious practice.