The site came to light not through planned investigation but through the routine monitoring of topsoil removal, a reminder of how much Irish archaeology emerges only when machinery intervenes.

Excavation, reported by Ó Néill in 1998, revealed three round houses, labelled A, B and C, which appear to have been in use at the same time. Round houses of this kind were the standard dwelling form of Bronze Age Ireland, typically built with walls of wattle, a technique in which flexible rods or stakes are woven together and then plastered with daub, a mix of clay, straw, and other organic material. House A was the largest, roughly nine metres in diameter, its circular wall-slot still preserving occasional stake-holes and, inside, a ring of six post-holes marking where the roof supports once stood. House B, immediately to the north and slightly smaller at around eight metres across, followed the same pattern. House C, to the north-east, was only partially recoverable, disturbed by a later field boundary and tree-line. Two additional structures complicated the picture further: Structure D, about nine metres south of House A, was puzzling enough that the excavator could not determine its function; and Structure E, apparently earlier than Houses A and B, had been partially destroyed by the very wall-slots of those buildings, suggesting the ridge had seen activity across more than one phase. The finds recovered, coarse pottery of Bronze Age character, a fragment of a saddle quern used for grinding grain, burnt daub, rubbing stones, hammerstones, a possible whetstone, and some struck chert and flint, sketch the outline of a self-sufficient domestic life, people processing food, maintaining tools, and building and rebuilding their homes on a small island of dry ground in a boggy midland plain.