What was found, when found at all, amounted to a pit barely the size of a hardback book and no deeper than a thumb's width: 25 centimetres by 27 centimetres, just 5 centimetres deep. Inside, a smooth black silt packed with charcoal and a high density of crushed, cremated human bone. The knoll itself had been flattened during groundworks, severely truncating whatever had once been deposited there, so that the surviving remnant was more a shadow of a burial than the burial itself.

The pit came to light in 1986 during archaeological monitoring of the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline, a project that cut across considerable stretches of the Irish midlands and prompted salvage excavation at numerous sites along its route. Archaeologist Margaret Gowen directed the work, and her 1988 report recorded this particular find under the site reference TR/2/18/1. A cremation pit of this kind, where the remains of the dead, typically burned on a pyre elsewhere, are gathered and placed in a modest cut in the ground, was a common funerary practice in prehistoric Ireland, most often associated with the Bronze Age. What made this example notable was its isolation: it was described as a single, unaccompanied pit, without an obvious enclosure or monument around it, though it sits within a broader landscape that includes linear earthworks, a general earthwork some 70 metres to the south-west, and a barrow, a low circular burial mound, roughly 90 metres to the south-east. Whether those features were ever meaningfully connected to this burial is not recorded.

The site does not appear on the Ordnance Survey Ireland six-inch maps, which suggests it left no visible trace even in the nineteenth century. Aerial imagery from 2011 to 2013, and later Google Earth orthoimages, show nothing at the surface. There is, in practical terms, nothing to see. The pasture has been reclaimed, the knoll levelled, the pit reduced to a few lines in an excavation report. Its interest lies not in any visible remnant but in what those few centimetres of dark fill represent: a deliberate act of burial, carried out at an unknown point in prehistory, on a low rise in the Limerick countryside that no longer exists in quite the form it once did.