What Is the Difference Between Consecrated Ground and the Catholic Church?

In Ireland, where children were born unshriven, they weren't allowed to be buried in consecrated ground. Parents then had to choose somewhere that was relevant to them. Sometimes those would be within the sort of circles of Iron Age forts or next to ruined churches. As angering, it continued up until quite modern times, you know, into the 1980s,. So it's an extraordinary thing.