What made it stand out among the other features uncovered at the site was not its size but its character: unlike the surrounding grave-cuts, this particular pit showed clear signs of in situ burning, meaning the cremation had taken place within the pit itself rather than elsewhere before the remains were deposited.

The pit came to light in 2007 during excavations carried out ahead of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme, under excavation licence E3681. It sits just inside the north-eastern portion of a ditched enclosure, a roughly defined ceremonial or funerary space bounded by a ditch, and had been partially truncated by that same enclosure, meaning the enclosure's construction had cut into and disturbed part of the pit at some point in the past. In shape and dimensions it closely resembled the other grave-cuts recorded within the enclosure, suggesting it belonged to the same phase of activity, a cluster of burials on commanding high ground, the kind of elevated, visible location that prehistoric communities across Ireland repeatedly chose for their dead. The fill, dense with charcoal and calcined bone, pointed to a deliberate and sustained burning event. The findings were published by Whitty in 2009 and again in 2010.