When the base of the hill was quarried sometime in the late 1990s or early 2000s, skeletons were exposed in the freshly cut hillside face. What makes the discovery quietly unsettling is what followed: rather than being reburied or formally investigated, that exposed section was simply left open. For roughly fifteen years, the remains sat uncovered in the slope before anyone made a formal record of them.

The subsequent report, compiled by Jo Moran under the title 'Skeletons at Knockboy Stud, Gurtnahoe, Co. Tipperary', documented what the quarrying had revealed. At least one burial was articulated, meaning the bones were still in their original anatomical arrangement, placed in a deliberate grave-cut and oriented east to west, the traditional Christian alignment with the head to the west so the body faces the rising sun at resurrection. There were no grave goods, no coffin remains, and no surviving grave markers. Several other skeletons were also present, some of which cut across one another, suggesting the site was used over a period of time rather than for a single burial event. A possible enclosing ditch was identified at the southern end of the exposed section, which may indicate that a formal burial ground once extended further to the south. Other burials recorded separately in the Knockboy townland could be connected to this site, though without knowing their precise locations no firm link can be established. The hill itself sits in upland terrain, with open views to the north-west and south, the kind of elevated, boundary-like ground where early medieval and later burial sites are not uncommon in Ireland.