They were placed back deliberately, the millstone covering the entrance was replaced on top of them, and the whole arrangement was left as it was. Nothing is visible at the surface today.

The site sits within a rath, a type of enclosed early medieval farmstead typically defined by one or more circular earthen banks, and it contains a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage or chamber that was commonly built during the early medieval period for storage or refuge. What makes this particular example quietly strange is the sequence of events that appears to have followed its discovery. At some point, the souterrain's entrance was found to be sealed by a millstone, the kind with a perforated centre used for grinding grain, repurposed here as a cover. When that stone was lifted, clay pipes, the short-stemmed kind associated broadly with post-medieval use, were found inside the chamber. Rather than being removed and recorded, they were returned to the underground space and the millstone was put back in place. The landowner's account is the primary source for all of this; there is no excavation record and no physical trace remains above ground.