The burials here are cremation pits, each holding fragments of burnt bone and charcoal, tucked into the pasture on a gentle south-south-west-facing slope as if the ground had simply absorbed them. Flat cemeteries are among the harder prehistoric burial types to recognise precisely because they offer the surface no clues; without intervention, this one would almost certainly have been built over without anyone knowing it was there.

The site came to light in 2003, when archaeologist Flor Hurley was conducting monitoring work, the watching of ground being disturbed by construction machinery, under licence, ahead of a housing development called Glantan. What Hurley found prompted a full excavation later that same year, carried out by Niamh O'Callaghan under a separate licence. The excavation was divided into areas, and the cremation pits turned up across several of them. In Area 6, situated roughly fifty metres south of the main excavation zone, four pits were uncovered approximately fifteen metres north-east of a separate, miscellaneous excavation feature. Two of the pits were oval in shape and two were circular; all contained charcoal and burnt bone within their deposits, and pottery sherds were recovered from two of them. The pottery offers the possibility of dating, though the notes do not specify a period, and the presence of cremated remains alongside ceramic fragments is a combination familiar from prehistoric funerary practice across Ireland.

The site sits on the north side of Schoolhouse Road in Castletroy, an area that has seen considerable residential development since the early 2000s. There is nothing to see above ground today; the significance of the place lies entirely in what was recorded during that brief excavation window before construction proceeded. For anyone interested in the archaeology of the Limerick suburbs, the published monitoring report by Hurley, along with O'Callaghan's excavation records, remains the primary source. The finds and context reports would be held with the National Museum of Ireland, as is standard for licensed excavations. It is the kind of site that rewards archival curiosity more than a physical visit, a place whose story exists now mainly on paper.