Not a monument, not a marked grave, just a series of modest depressions in the earth, one of which contained fragments of burnt bone that could, cautiously, have been human.

The pits came to light in 2000 during excavations carried out ahead of golf course construction at Ballynamuddagh. Cremation pits of this kind are a recurring feature of Irish prehistoric archaeology. They are typically small and unlined, and the burnt bone they contain is often the only surviving evidence of a funerary act, the fire itself leaving little else behind. Whether the bone here was human remained uncertain even after analysis, a reminder of how much ambiguity attaches to these quiet, unglamorous finds. The excavation was conducted under licence and the findings were reported by Deevy in 2002.