Farmers ploughing the land encountered human bones arranged within rough stone settings, the stones laid out in the shape of coffins, but no formal excavation followed and no map was made. The site belongs to a category sometimes called a flat cemetery, meaning a burial ground without mounds or obvious surface markers, the kind of place that announces itself only when the earth is disturbed.

The earliest written record comes from E.P. Shirley, who noted in 1845 that bones and stone-lined graves had repeatedly been turned up by the plough on this rising ground. More intriguing still, one of those graves contained a flanged bronze axe. A flanged axe is a cast bronze tool or weapon with raised ridges along its sides, a form associated broadly with the Bronze Age. That particular artefact was eventually acquired by the National Museum of Ireland, as noted by Lucas in 1968. It is a significant enough object, the kind of thing that points toward a burial with deliberate grave goods rather than a casual or accidental deposit. Yet without a fixed location, the graves themselves remain effectively lost, absorbed back into agricultural land that has been worked for nearly two centuries since Shirley's observation.