A cist is a small stone-lined burial box, typically dating to the Bronze Age, constructed by setting slabs on edge to form a rough rectangular chamber and capping the whole with a flat covering stone. They were built to hold single burials, sometimes accompanied by a ceramic vessel or a few personal objects, and they tend to turn up in places that were once open, purposeful, and significant to the communities who made them.

Keelogyboy is a quiet townland in Sligo, a county with a remarkable density of prehistoric monuments, from the megalithic cemetery at Carrowmore to the passage tombs of the Knocknarea ridge. A cist would sit comfortably within that longer continuum of funerary practice, representing a later, more intimate tradition than the great communal tombs of the Neolithic. Beyond its classification and location, the specific details of this particular monument, when it was found, by whom, what it contained, and what condition it survives in today, remain to be more widely published.