Somewhere in the dense woodland of Drimna Beg on the Iveragh Peninsula, a roughly subcircular patch of ground served for generations as a cillín, the Irish term for an informal burial place used for unbaptised infants and others excluded from consecrated ground. These sites occupy a particular and quietly sorrowful corner of Irish social history, and this one was described in the late nineteenth century as a burial ground formerly used for the interment of young children, but by then already disused.

The first edition of the Ordnance Survey map recorded the site as a pair of conjoined enclosures, though today only a single unenclosed area survives, measuring roughly 20 metres north to south and 25 metres east to west. A low dividing wall of boulders and compacted earth, about 12.5 metres long, half a metre high, and a metre wide, runs from the eastern edge to the centre of the space, giving the impression that the ground was once more formally organised than it now appears. Scattered across the north-eastern quadrant are loose stones and several rows of uninscribed grave-markers, oriented north to south and north-west to south-east. These small stones average around 35 centimetres in height, with the tallest reaching 55 centimetres. They bear no names, no dates, no identifying marks of any kind. Close to the north-western edge stands a single cut headstone, an anomaly among the otherwise anonymous markers, inscribed only with the year 1878.