The cist, a short rectangular stone-lined grave of a type common across Ireland and Britain during the Bronze Age, measured just three feet long and one foot in each other dimension, with a paved floor. Inside it lay cremated human bones and a bowl food vessel, the kind of ceramic container placed with the dead during the Bronze Age, likely intended to accompany or sustain the deceased in some form of afterlife. The contents made their way into the National Museum of Ireland, registered in 1885, which suggests the burial was discovered and removed in the nineteenth century, before any formal archaeological excavation practice was in place.

John Waddell, writing in 1970, identified this as a Bronze Age type cist and recorded its dimensions and contents. The 1913 revised edition of the Ordnance Survey twenty-five inch map depicted the location as an oval area of rock outcrop enclosed within a field boundary, a detail that gave the site a degree of cartographic visibility it no longer enjoys. That enclosing field boundary has since disappeared entirely; it is not traceable on aerial photography. About 115 metres to the west lies a ringfort, a circular earthwork enclosure of the early medieval period, a reminder that this landscape was in use across many different centuries and by people with quite different relationships to the land and to the dead. The cist itself, stripped of its contents long ago, sits quietly beneath pasture that gives no outward sign of what was once arranged there with some deliberation.