The discovery came in 1868, when excavation revealed a pit holding a cist burial alongside a separate, unenclosed cinerary burial. A cist is a small stone-lined box grave, typically used during the Bronze Age to contain human remains, and in this case it held a cinerary urn, a ceramic vessel used to house cremated bone. The second burial was unenclosed, meaning the cremated remains were deposited without any stone surround, and it was associated with a food vessel, a type of pottery found frequently in early Bronze Age funerary contexts across Ireland and Britain, often interpreted as an offering or provision for the dead. The finds were documented by Frazer between 1866 and 1869, and have since been discussed by scholars including Waddell and Kavanagh, whose work placed the site within the wider pattern of Bronze Age burial practice recorded across the island. The research was compiled for the archaeological record by Geraldine Stout.

The site sits on the south bank of the Liffey in what is now a heavily suburban part of west Dublin, and there is nothing visible above ground to mark where the pit once lay. The burials themselves have long since been removed and documented rather than left in situ. For anyone with an interest in the archaeology of the Liffey valley, the significance here is less about what can be seen and more about what the find represents: a reminder that the river corridor was a meaningful landscape for prehistoric communities, and that the ground beneath ordinary streets still carries a very long memory.