The field at Dromlohan sits on the eastern edge of a break in an east-facing hill slope, an unremarkable stretch of grazing land that offers nothing to the casual eye. No earthwork, no enclosure, no marker of any kind survives above the surface. What lies beneath, and who was responsible for placing it there, remains almost entirely unknown.

The burial was discovered around 1965, though the circumstances of that discovery were never formally recorded in any useful detail. The sole reference appears in a 1972 survey by Wallace, which notes the find with striking brevity, acknowledging only that a mass burial existed here and that no further details are known. A mass burial of this kind, meaning multiple individuals interred together rather than in separate, individually marked graves, can arise from many causes, plague, famine, conflict, or the informal burial practices associated with those who were denied consecrated ground. Without excavation records or documentary evidence, none of these possibilities can be confirmed or ruled out for Dromlohan. The site was compiled for the archaeological record by Denis Power and uploaded in 2011, which at least ensures it is not entirely lost to notice.

The location is in pasture, meaning access would depend on landowner permission, and there is nothing on the ground to reward a visit in the conventional sense. The interest here is of a more conceptual kind. The hill slope setting is worth noting; breaks or scarps in hillsides have sometimes been associated with informal or marginal burial in Irish tradition, partly because such terrain sits outside the tidily bounded world of the parish churchyard. A visitor with an eye for subtle topography might read the contour of the land and understand why a place like this, on an edge and a slope, might have seemed appropriate for those who needed to be buried quietly, and quickly, and without ceremony.