Road construction has a way of making archaeologists work quickly, and what was uncovered here in 2003 amounted to a compact but legible prehistoric landscape, the kind that rarely survives in one piece.

The excavation, carried out under licence in 2003 and published by Molloy in 2006, revealed a ring-ditch enclosing a roughly circular area about 5.6 metres across. A ring-ditch is exactly what it sounds like, a circular trench cut into the ground, typically associated with funerary or ritual monuments; this one was 1.4 metres wide and averaged 0.6 metres in depth. Nine flint pieces were recovered from its fill. Just over three metres to the north-east sat the cremation pit itself, containing deposits of cremated bone, charcoal, and large stones, the physical residue of a burial rite that was common across prehistoric Ireland and Britain. Ten metres to the west of the ring-ditch, a small circular structure roughly three metres in diameter had been defined by a slot-trench, a shallow channel cut to hold a wall of timber or wattle, with two post-holes marking an entrance less than a metre wide, a central post-hole, and an outer ring of further post-holes. Several fragments of prehistoric pottery were found among those outer posts. An eleventh metres north again, a second small structure of a similar scale had been formed from post-holes and stake-holes arranged around a shallow circular depression. Together, the four features suggest a place that was used deliberately and repeatedly, where the dead were cremated and commemorated within a defined, structured space.