The mound covered a grave containing a human skeleton, accompanied by a heap of quartz stones and an inscribed slab described, by those who first examined it, as bearing writing.

The inscribed slab was taken to Dublin, and there the trail goes cold. Nothing more is known of its fate or whereabouts. Local information at the time suggested it may have been an ogham stone, one of the early medieval upright stones incised with a series of notches and lines along their edges that represent one of the oldest forms of written Irish. If that identification was correct, it would place the burial within a tradition of commemorative or boundary marking that was widespread across early Christian Ireland, particularly in the southwest. The quartz stones are a detail worth pausing over too: white quartz has appeared in Irish funerary contexts from the Neolithic onwards, most famously at Newgrange, where the forecourt was strewn with it, suggesting some long-persisting association between the stone and the dead. Whether that connection was still alive in the mind of whoever buried this individual, or whether the quartz served a more practical or incidental purpose, is not something the available evidence can settle.