In 1986, workers digging foundation trenches for a new house broke through to a shallow burial, only around a quarter of a metre below the surface, where the bones of several adults were lying. Two of the skulls had been deliberately covered by a small limestone flag, a detail that suggests intentional interment rather than accidental deposit, though no further grave goods or structural features are recorded.

What gives the site a particular quality is the combination of the accidental discovery and the hint of persistent local memory. Before the foundations were ever dug, there was already a vague tradition in the area that this spot had served as a place of burial. That kind of oral trace, imprecise and undated, is not unusual in the Irish landscape, where the locations of old graveyards, plague pits, and unbaptised children's burial grounds, known as cillíní, were sometimes remembered in local speech long after any visible surface feature had disappeared. Whether this site belongs to any of those categories is not known. No date has been assigned to the remains, and the record is silent on whether any formal archaeological investigation followed the initial discovery.