No other bones accompanied it, the surrounding context was disturbed, and the best assessment of where it had originally lain pointed not to a formal grave but to the bed or margins of a small lake. A solitary skull without a skeleton, recovered from what may have been open water, is the kind of find that raises more questions than it resolves.

The skull was examined by Mary Cahill of the National Museum of Ireland and is now held in the Museum's collections. The association with a lake setting is significant. In early medieval Ireland and across much of prehistoric Europe, lakes and wetlands were places where human remains were sometimes deliberately deposited, whether as offerings, as a form of burial outside conventional rites, or as the consequence of violence. Without additional bones or datable material from an undisturbed context, it is impossible to say which of these applied here, or indeed when the individual lived. The find is documented by Sikora and Cahill in their 2011 study, which places it within a broader consideration of such watery or ambiguous depositions across the country.