A cist is a small stone-lined box burial, typically dating to the Bronze Age, constructed from upright slabs with a capstone laid across the top. They were used to inter the dead, sometimes accompanied by a ceramic vessel or personal objects, and they survive across the Irish landscape in varying states of completeness, some still sealed, others long since disturbed by agriculture or weather or simple curiosity.

Bohateh is a rural townland in Clare, a county that holds a considerable density of prehistoric monuments, from portal tombs on the Burren limestone to ring barrows on gentler ground. The cist form generally belongs to the earlier Bronze Age, roughly 2500 to 1500 BC, a period when individual or small-group burial replaced the communal tomb traditions of the Neolithic. That a cist should exist in Bohateh is not surprising in itself; what makes this one worth noting is precisely how little about it has been made publicly available. It exists as a named, located monument, acknowledged and classified, but the details of its discovery, its condition, and whatever it may have contained remain formally unrecorded in any accessible public source at present.