The man had been tall, noticeably so, and the stone-lined grave that held him was far too small. His legs had been bent and his body pressed into the space, as though whoever buried him had simply made do with what was already there.

The mound that concealed the burial was described in the early twentieth century by J.C. Grove White, who documented it between 1905 and 1925 as an earthen mound in the field facing the stable yard. When it was opened, the contents were striking not just for the skeleton's size but for the evident mismatch between the body and its container. Later analysis by Doody in 1986 suggested the burial was probably a short cist, a form of prehistoric grave in which a small stone-lined box, just large enough in principle to hold a crouched body, was constructed from upright slabs and a capstone. Short cists are generally associated with the Bronze Age in Ireland, and the practice of placing the deceased in a tightly contracted position was common to the period. In this case, the body appears to have been too large even for that accommodation.

The mound itself no longer features prominently in the landscape, and the remains were disturbed during the original opening. What persists is the account, a brief but oddly vivid description of a burial that raises more questions than it answers about who the individual was and why the grave fit so poorly.