The grave, oriented east to west in the old Christian tradition, measured about two metres long, one metre wide, and one metre deep. It was unremarkable in its dimensions, but what turned up in the fill around the bones gave the site its quietly puzzling character.

When the archaeologist Rynne investigated the site in the early 1960s, after some disturbance had already taken place, the grave-fill yielded a small blue glass bead, two pottery sherds, some animal bones, and three pieces of bottle glass. The potsherds were dated to the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries, which means the burial could not have taken place before the later medieval period. Rynne considered these objects likely to have been thrown in accidentally with the fill rather than placed there deliberately as grave goods. Analysis of the skeleton revealed evidence of a chronic tuberculous condition, tuberculosis having been a persistent presence in medieval Ireland, particularly in communities under stress from famine, conflict, or poverty. The individual buried here left no name, no monument, and no clear community context; only a grave cut into a hillside pasture, and a handful of objects that may have meant nothing at all.