Locally, however, this small earthwork on the lower slopes of Aghatubrid mountain in County Kerry goes by a different name altogether: a children's burial ground. That double identity, one cartographic, one communal, says a great deal about how ancient field monuments were quietly repurposed in rural Irish memory and practice long after their original function had been forgotten.

A ringfort, or rath, is an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, typically defined by one or more circular banks of earth thrown up around a dwelling and its outbuildings. The example at Laharan sits on gently westward-sloping pasture and measures roughly 22 metres north to south and 25 metres east to west. Its enclosing bank of earth and gravel survives to about 0.9 metres in external height on the northern side, though dense overgrowth now makes it barely discernible at ground level, and the interior appears stony and featureless with no clear inner face to the bank visible. The local tradition of using it as a burial ground for unbaptised children, known in Irish as a cillín, is not unusual in itself: across Ireland, ringforts and other prehistoric enclosures were frequently chosen for such burials, partly because their ancient, bounded character set them apart from consecrated ground, and partly because they already carried a sense of otherness in the landscape. What is quietly striking here is that the association has persisted clearly enough to survive in living local knowledge, even as the earthwork itself has all but dissolved back into the hillside.