It is barely there. The earthen bank that once defined a roughly circular enclosure some 47 metres across has been destroyed to the north, south, and partially to the east, and what little survives is visible only as faint traces curving from the north-east around to the south. Most visitors walking across this field would notice nothing unusual at all. What makes the site quietly arresting is not what you can see above ground but what lies within the interior: a children's burial ground.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths when constructed from earth, were the most common type of enclosed settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically serving as farmsteads for a single family and their livestock. They are found in their thousands across the country. This one in Carrowmore was documented by McCaffrey in 1952, who classified it as a circular earthen fort and recorded its dimensions, though even then the bank was already substantially gone. The children's burial ground inside it belongs to a category of site known in Irish tradition as a cillín, a place set apart, usually unconsecrated ground, where unbaptised infants were buried, often within or adjacent to older, pre-Christian monuments. The association between such burials and ringforts is well attested across Ireland, a layering of grief and tradition onto already ancient ground. Here, the two things occupy the same modest rise: the remains of a settlement perhaps a thousand years old, and a burial place whose use likely continued well into more recent centuries.