There is no marker, no enclosure wall, no local legend attached to the spot, at least none on record. The site sits just north of the boundary with the neighbouring townland of Milltown, unremarkable farmland by any outward appearance, yet the soil here holds what appears to be a burial ground that nobody had formally recorded before construction work came within metres of it.

The discovery came about almost by accident. In 2003, archaeological monitoring was carried out to the immediate west of the site during construction of the Lucan-Palmerstown Pipeline High Level Water Supply Scheme. Monitoring of this kind, where an archaeologist watches over groundworks as they proceed, is a standard precaution on Irish infrastructure projects, and in this case it proved its worth. The archaeologist Helen Kehoe recorded approximately thirteen human burials, discovered in situ, meaning the remains had not been disturbed or moved from where the individuals were originally interred. The bones were very poorly preserved, which is not unusual for early medieval burial sites in Ireland, where soil acidity and centuries of agricultural activity take a heavy toll. Based on the nature of the remains and the context of the site, the burial ground has been assigned a likely early medieval date, placing it broadly in the period between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Crucially, the full extent of the burials was never established. The pipeline trench passed through only one edge of the site, and the monitoring report, compiled by Caimin O'Brien from Kehoe's findings and uploaded to the National Monuments Service record in May 2023, notes that further burials almost certainly survive in the surrounding ground.

There is nothing to see at the surface, and the site lies on private agricultural land, so access is not something a visitor can simply arrange. Its interest lies less in what can be observed and more in what the discovery implies: that early medieval communities were burying their dead across the Irish countryside in places that have since been completely absorbed into the working landscape, with no surviving trace above ground. For those interested in how such sites are identified and recorded, Kehoe's unpublished monitoring report, submitted to the National Monuments Service under Licence No. 02E1281, is the primary source. The site serves as a quiet reminder that the absence of visible archaeology does not mean the absence of archaeology.