What makes this one different is what has been turning up inside it. Local accounts describe a burial ground on the summit where a number of fully grown skeletons were discovered, along with fragments of coffin furniture, suggesting an organised cemetery that time and land use have all but erased from memory.

The most recent known disturbance came around 1980, when a cutting made in the north-eastern part of the hillock brought up a skeleton and a set of coffin handles. The handles point to a period when formal Christian burial was the practice, though no dating has been published for the site, and the full extent of the cemetery remains unclear. Elevated ground was frequently chosen for burial in Ireland across many centuries, whether for practical reasons of drainage or because such spots already carried a sense of significance in the landscape. Here, the hillock would have been conspicuous for some distance in every direction across the surrounding plain, which may have made it a natural focal point for a community that has since left few other traces.