There is nothing to see at the surface now, no mound, no marker, no visible disturbance in the field. The site exists mainly as a fact recorded after the fact, a burial that had already been disturbed before anyone with an archaeological interest arrived.

The grave is a cist, a type of burial common in Bronze Age Ireland, essentially a box formed from upright stone slabs, sometimes barely large enough to contain an urn of cremated bone. This one at Gort An Phludaigh is polygonal in plan and notably compact, measuring roughly 0.6 metres long, 0.46 metres at its widest, and 0.53 metres deep, with a stone-lined floor and a covering slab approximately 0.91 by 1.5 metres. A landowner first opened it around 1919, and by the time J. and A. Kerrigan investigated the site in 1939, roughly a centimetre of mud had accumulated inside, from which fragments of cremated human bone and charred wood were recovered. No ceramic urn survived, but the landowner recalled finding pieces of dark brown unburnt timber when the cist was first opened, which the investigators suggested may have been the remains of a small wooden vessel used to contain the bones. About nine metres away, the investigators noted a second grave, which was empty, leaving open the question of whether it had been robbed out long before, or had never held anything at all.