This is a cist, a type of prehistoric burial container formed from upright stone slabs set edge to edge, the interior floored with flat stones and sized, in this case, to hold a single crouched body or a deposit of cremated remains. Measuring just 1.15 metres by 0.47 metres, and barely a quarter of a metre deep, it is easy to overlook in the rough hill pasture, sitting as it does within a shallow depression in the ground.

What makes the site quietly remarkable is not the cist alone but its immediate company. Roughly two and a half metres to the north-north-west lies a wedge tomb, one of the most common megalithic monument types in Ireland, typically dating to the late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, in which a gallery of large stones narrows towards one end and is covered by a capstone or series of slabs. Some sixty metres to the south-south-east, a cairn, a deliberate mound of stone that often marks a burial or serves as a territorial marker, completes a loose cluster of prehistoric monuments on this hillside. A small peaty mound to the north-west of the cist may represent the material originally dug out when the stone box was first constructed and set in place, a minor detail that somehow makes the whole thing feel more immediate, as though the work was finished only recently rather than millennia ago.