During excavation works carried out ahead of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road upgrade, archaeologists uncovered what appears to be a cremation pit, a feature in which the burnt remains of a person were deliberately placed, typically after a funeral pyre had reduced the body to fragments of calcined bone. In this case, the single cremation deposit sat centrally within the pit, and the bone fragments recovered were notably large, suggesting relatively careful deposition rather than casual disposal.

What gives the find its particular interest is its immediate surroundings. A second cremation pit lay roughly five metres to the south, and approximately nine metres to the southeast sat the remains of a Neolithic structure. Neolithic, meaning belonging to the later Stone Age period broadly spanning from around 4000 to 2500 BC in Ireland, the structure suggests that this gentle northeast-facing slope of glacial till, running down toward the Monefelim River, had been a place of human activity and perhaps significance across a considerable span of time. Whether the cremation pits relate to the same period as the structure or represent a later, separate phase of use is a question the excavation raised without fully resolving. The site was recorded under excavation licence E3852, with findings published by Devine and Zimny in 2009 and discussed further by Devine in 2010. The landscape itself, shaped by glacial deposits left at the end of the last Ice Age, would have looked broadly similar to people living here thousands of years ago, a low, sheltered slope beside a modest river.