The stone box it struck, known as a cist, is a form of Bronze Age burial typical across Ireland and Britain: a small rectangular chamber assembled from upright slabs, sealed with a capstone, and set into a pit in the earth. This one was modest even by those standards, measuring roughly 93 centimetres long and 43 centimetres wide, with a depth of around 40 centimetres, its long axis oriented north-north-west to south-south-east.

When archaeologist Murphy investigated the site in 1965, the structure revealed its careful construction. Four upright slabs formed the walls, with the eastern slab projecting slightly beyond the cist at both ends. A single basal slab formed the floor, and packing stones had been wedged behind the side slabs to hold them in place within the pit, which was considerably larger than the cist itself at 1.9 metres by 1.3 metres. Inside, in a poor state of preservation, lay the unburnt remains of a young man, probably between eighteen and nineteen years of age at the time of his death. Unburnt inhumation, as opposed to cremation, is one of the burial rites associated with the Early Bronze Age in Ireland, and the care taken in constructing the grave, lining and sealing it, suggests he was interred with some deliberateness. Nothing is recorded about grave goods or any other objects found alongside him.

The site sits in what was tillage land at the time of discovery, and the ploughing that found it almost certainly disturbed it significantly. The dislodged capstone is a reminder of how vulnerable these shallow monuments are to agricultural activity, and how many may have been lost entirely before anyone thought to look.