They are small, unassuming, and easily missed, yet their contents mark them as something genuinely ancient. The fill is characteristic of burnt mounds, a class of prehistoric site found widely across Ireland and Britain, where stones were repeatedly heated and plunged into water, probably for cooking, bathing, or industrial processes. The stones, shattered by thermal shock and discarded, gradually accumulated into the mounded spreads that survive above ground elsewhere. Here, what remains are the pits themselves, compact and intact beneath pasture.

The features came to light during test trenching carried out by archaeologist Yvonne Whitty in 2021, under licence 20E0571, ahead of a proposed 8.4-hectare extension to an existing quarry. An area of 15 metres by 10 metres was opened around the pits, constrained to the north by a laneway. No other features were found within that area and no artefacts were recovered. The more easterly of the two pits measured roughly 1.15 to 1.17 metres in diameter and was 0.28 metres deep at its deepest central point; the more westerly measured 0.90 to 1.09 metres across. The pits lay just 3 metres from the field boundary and the access laneway. Following consultation with the quarry operator, the decision was taken to preserve both features in situ, with a 10-metre buffer left between the boundary ditch and any future excavation limit, and the immediate area fenced off with post and sheep wire to guard against accidental damage.

The site remains under ordinary farmland, fenced off from quarry activity but otherwise unremarkable to look at. Because the field was still under pasture at the time of the investigation, it was noted that the quarry workings might not reach the vicinity of the pits for several years. Whether further related features lie beyond the area tested remains an open question.