At least eight human burials came to light, each laid out in the extended position, heads oriented to the north or north-north-west, with no grave goods and no protective covering of any kind. The manner of burial, bodies stretched flat rather than crouched, and the absence of any accompanying objects, points toward early Christian practice, when the dead were typically interred in this plainly devotional way, facing toward Jerusalem or simply aligned with the rising sun, depending on the tradition observed.

Only one of the burials was formally excavated. The rest emerged through the practical business of extracting sand, which means the full extent of the cemetery, and whatever else it might have contained, was never systematically investigated. Inhumation cemeteries of this kind, without enclosing monuments or obvious surface markers, are easily overlooked and just as easily disturbed. The site at Aghade serves as a reminder of how much of the early medieval landscape of Ireland remains just below ground, unannounced, until someone starts digging for entirely unrelated reasons.