He was buried in a cist, a small stone-lined box grave of the kind commonly used during the Bronze Age in Ireland, with the body placed inside in a crouched position, knees drawn up, as was typical of the period. This particular cist measures 1.52 metres by 0.71 metres, just large enough for a single adult placed on his right side with his head oriented to the west.

When the burial was recorded and published in 1897, the occupant was identified as an adult male of around forty years of age. Alongside him were sherds of a bowl or vase food vessel, the kind of ceramic container often placed with the dead in Early Bronze Age burials, likely intended to accompany the individual into whatever came next. The 1897 publications by Coffey and others documented the find, and the site was later noted by the archaeologist John Waddell in his 1990 study of Bronze Age burial practices in Ireland. Nothing about the burial is especially anomalous in type; cist graves with crouched inhumations and food vessel pottery are reasonably well known from this period across Ireland. What is quietly arresting is the specificity of it: one man, a particular age, laid carefully on a slope chosen for its orientation, with a broken vessel for company, while the sea sat visible in the distance.