One adult lay in an extended supine position, head pointing west, within the northern terminus of a dumb-bell shaped corn-drying kiln. There was no grave cut, no formal arrangement, nothing to suggest a deliberate burial in any conventional sense. Alongside these remains, disarticulated bones belonging to a child of around six or seven years of age were recovered from the same structure. The kiln itself sat in the south-western quadrant of a ringfort, roughly three and a half metres from the inner edge of the fosse, which is the defensive ditch that typically encircles such an enclosure.

The remains came to light during excavations carried out in 2006 and 2007 ahead of road improvement works on the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford route. A cereal-drying kiln, at its simplest, was a stone-lined or clay-lined feature used to dry grain before milling or storage, a common fixture of early medieval Irish farmsteads. Finding human remains inside one, without any of the markers of formal interment, is quietly unsettling. Archaeologists working on the site suggested that these individuals may have been considered outside of contemporary society, a category that in early medieval Ireland could encompass the unbaptised, the socially marginalised, or those who died in circumstances that precluded normal Christian burial. The child's age and the absence of any grave goods or deliberate positioning reinforce the sense that these were not people afforded the rites their community would ordinarily have observed.