The grave came to light not through archaeological survey or aerial photography but through the entirely ordinary business of construction, when digging exposed what turned out to be a carefully made resting place: a pit lined with limestone slabs, oriented east to west, narrowing at the eastern end, measuring roughly 1.7 metres in length and 0.4 metres in width. No grave goods accompanied the body, or at least none were found with the lower portion of the skeleton that survived.

The site sits in low-lying pasture close to St. Movee's burial ground, a proximity that becomes more meaningful when the probable date is considered. The burial is thought to be Early Christian in origin, a period, broadly spanning the fifth to twelfth centuries, when stone-lined graves of this type, sometimes called cist burials, were associated with Christian communities and their satellite cemeteries. The east-west alignment is consistent with early Christian burial practice, in which the body was laid so as to face the rising sun, and by extension the east, the direction of resurrection. Three pieces of unworked flint pebble and one retouched piece were also recovered from the site; whether these were deposited deliberately or were simply present in the soil is not recorded. The find was documented by Geraldine Stout, whose 1992 survey of the region provides the primary record.

The location is agricultural land rather than a managed heritage site, so there is nothing to see at ground level; the grave itself was uncovered during construction work and is not accessible as a monument. What makes it worth knowing about is precisely its ordinariness as a discovery: an isolated individual, buried with care and without ceremony in a field that would later become unremarkable pasture, only a short distance from a named early ecclesiastical site. For anyone interested in the early medieval landscape of north County Dublin, St. Movee's burial ground is the more visible landmark, and the surrounding fields carry more history in them than the surface suggests.