The remains appeared to belong to a single individual buried in a fully extended position, oriented east to west, a alignment commonly associated with Christian burial practice. The bones were largely destroyed in the process of being uncovered, and only a few fragments were recovered for examination before being reinterred.

No grave markers, graveslabs, or artefacts were found alongside the remains, which leaves the burial without a reliable date or context. The discovery was reported to the National Museum of Ireland but was never followed up with a formal investigation. Without associated objects or a surviving skeleton suitable for radiocarbon dating, little more could be established. It remains an isolated find, recorded but unresolved, sitting quietly beside a road that runs past one of the most closely watched tower houses in Connacht. Rockfleet, the squat fifteenth-century stronghold on the inlet's edge, is famously linked to Gráinne Ní Mháille, the seafaring chieftain known in anglicised form as Grace O'Malley, though no connection between her story and this particular burial has ever been suggested or substantiated. The two simply occupy the same shoreline, separated by a short stretch of tarmac and several centuries of accumulated silence.