What had once been a cist, a small stone-lined grave box typically set within or beneath a larger burial mound, was destroyed, taking with it whatever physical presence the site still held in the landscape.

The cist sat inside a tumulus, a raised earthen mound of the kind used across Bronze Age Ireland to mark and protect the graves of the dead. When the structure was disturbed, it was found to contain a cinerary urn along with ashes and burnt particles of bone, the remnants of a cremation burial. Cinerary urns of this type are ceramic vessels made specifically to hold cremated remains, and they appear widely across Irish Bronze Age sites, often decorated and carefully placed within the cist before the mound was sealed above. The detail was recorded in the Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society in 1934, some years after the destruction itself, which suggests the find was noted either at the time or shortly afterwards and only later committed to print.