Filled with dark brown soil, charcoal, and some limestone, the pit's base was scorched in its north-east corner, indicating that burning had taken place within it rather than elsewhere. That alone would be unremarkable enough in an Irish field, where fulachta fiadh and other fire-related features turn up with some regularity during construction groundwork. What gave this particular pit its quieter strangeness was a small quantity of disarticulated human skeletal remains, found in its north-west quadrant, assessed as medieval in date or possibly earlier. The bones had been redeposited, meaning they were not the remains of someone buried there deliberately in the usual sense, but rather human material moved from somewhere else and placed, or perhaps simply incorporated, into the pit's fill.

The excavation was carried out ahead of a large housing development across two fields, a common trigger for archaeological investigation in Ireland under planning regulations. The pit itself, measuring roughly 2.55 metres north-north-east to south-south-west and 1.7 metres across, had been partially damaged by ploughing before anyone got to it. It sat in the north-west part of the easternmost field. About 200 metres to the south-east, a second burnt pit was identified, and a wider scatter of pits was recorded across both fields, suggesting the area had seen repeated, if loosely organised, activity across an extended period. The precise relationship between the human remains and the burning is not established; the bones were redeposited rather than primary, which means their original context, wherever that was, is now lost.