It measures three metres long by one and two metres wide, aligned east to west in the conventional Christian manner, and there is nothing about its modest kerb of fieldstones to announce that it belongs to a story of rebellion, pursuit, and a curate with a gun.

Locally, the grave is known as that of the man the curate shot. The story attached to it concerns Fr Myles Prendergast, a Catholic priest who found himself a fugitive in the aftermath of the 1798 Rebellion, the United Irishmen's uprising that was crushed with considerable violence by Crown forces. A spy had been tracking him, and according to the tradition recorded by the writer and cartographer Tim Robinson, Prendergast shot his pursuer somewhere in this part of Connemara. The unnamed man was buried where he fell, or close enough to it, and the stones were laid around the grave without ceremony or marker. Priests on the run in 1798 were not in a position to advertise their whereabouts, and a spy's burial was unlikely to attract much official attention either way. What survives is the grave itself and the oral account that has kept the identity of its occupant, such as it is, alive in local memory.