At Fassaroe in County Wicklow, the remains of a woman were found during quarrying operations on a gentle east-facing slope, and once recorded, the site was consumed entirely by the same work that had revealed it. Nothing remains to visit.

What the excavation captured before everything was lost was quietly detailed. The woman was approximately 35 years of age at death and had been laid out in an extended inhumation, meaning the body was placed flat and straight rather than in the crouched position more typical of earlier prehistoric burials. She was oriented east to west with her head to the west, a burial alignment that recurs across many periods and cultures in Ireland and Britain, sometimes associated with Christian practice but not exclusively so. The grave itself was unlined, with no stone cist or timber framing to define it. Notably, a flint scraper and a flint blade were recovered from a high level within the grave fill. Flint scrapers and blades are tools shaped by knapping, the controlled striking of flint to produce a sharp working edge, and their presence in the upper fill of the grave rather than directly with the body raises questions about whether they were deliberate grave goods or incidental inclusions worked into the soil over time. The finds were catalogued under NMI 1943-00316-7, placing their discovery in or around 1943, with the site formally recorded by Keenan and colleagues the following year.