In 2000, excavations at Ballynamuddagh ahead of golf course construction uncovered a cluster of features that speak to long-ago human activity: two possible small hut sites, a possible circular structure, four possible cremation pits, and a substantial collection of pits, post-holes, and stake-holes. Post-holes and stake-holes are precisely what they sound like, the narrow voids left in the ground where upright timbers once stood, and their patterns can reveal the outlines of vanished buildings. Taken together, the assemblage suggests a settlement of some kind, though the full picture remains elusive.

The excavation, carried out under licence in 2000, was necessarily limited in scope. It was conducted only within the footprint of the planned fairway, and the excavator observed that the site continued northwards and westwards beyond the area that construction would disturb. That observation, recorded by Deevy in 2002, is a quietly significant one: it means the majority of whatever once existed here was never fully investigated, either left undisturbed in the ground or lost to development without record. The cremation pits add a further layer of complexity, suggesting the site may have served not only as a place of habitation but also of burial or ritual, though no further detail about their contents or dating was published in the available record.