The disturbance uncovered three graves containing extended skeletons, one of them accompanied by a fragment from a food vessel, a type of ceramic jar commonly placed with the dead in Britain and Ireland during the early second millennium BC. It was the kind of discovery that tends to happen not through deliberate archaeology but through groundwork, a spade going somewhere unexpected.

The following year, Ó Ríordáin carried out a formal excavation of the site and found seven more burials, bringing the total to ten. The dead had been laid out individually, each in their own grave, stretched on their backs, with all but one oriented NW-SE and the skull placed at the northwest end. That consistency in orientation suggests deliberate, repeated practice rather than casual interment, a community returning to the same low knoll over time with the same set of funerary conventions. Alongside the human remains, the excavation produced animal teeth and bones, numerous pottery sherds, chert scrapers, which are small flint-like stone tools shaped for cutting or scraping, and a small blue glass bead. The bead is the kind of object that stops you short; glass manufacture in prehistoric Ireland was rare, and such beads were often traded or passed across considerable distances, suggesting this was not an entirely isolated community.