The grave was only found in 1975, and only by accident.

What turned up was a cist, a type of small rectangular burial chamber constructed from flat slabs of stone, sealed with a single capstone and sometimes furnished with grave goods. This particular example measured just 0.6 metres by 0.4 metres internally, with a depth of 0.5 metres, a stone floor, and a lintel slab measuring 1.1 metres across. Inside were the cremated remains of a juvenile and a vase food vessel, the latter a ceramic form associated with early Bronze Age burial practice in Ireland and Britain, typically placed with the dead as an offering or provision for whatever followed. Radiocarbon dating of the human remains placed their deposition somewhere between 2140 and 1910 BC. The site sits on a south-facing slope of a ridge running northeast to southwest, with the River Slaney visible roughly 270 metres to the south. It is the kind of location that would have been chosen deliberately, elevated and oriented, overlooking moving water.

The cist no longer exists as a visible feature. The ground above it has long since been absorbed into residential development, which means the burial survives now only in the excavation record and in the radiocarbon date, a narrow window onto a child's death in a landscape that would have been almost unrecognisable today.