A barrow is a burial mound, typically raised from earth or stone in the Bronze Age, and this one had kept its contents intact long enough to tell at least a partial story.

The excavation revealed traces of fire and ash on the original ground surface, suggesting some form of funerary ritual had taken place before the mound was raised over it. The bone fragments themselves were tiny, which is consistent with cremation burials of the period, and their placement on the eastern side of the mound beneath a covering slab indicates a deliberate, careful interment. Alongside the human remains, excavators recovered a bronze axe, a flint point, several flint scrapers, and fragments of pottery. These objects help date the burial to the Bronze Age, a period when such grave goods were commonly placed with the dead. The finds were published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland in 1935, and the site was later catalogued as part of an archaeological survey of the Ballinrobe district compiled by D. Lavelle in 1994.