The discovery was unplanned, poorly documented at the time, and might easily have been lost entirely to the machinery of industrial work.

The ceramic fragments recovered belong to what archaeologists classify as a Drimnagh Style bowl, a type of finely made, decorated pottery associated with a particular category of Irish Neolithic burial known as a Linkardstown burial. These burials, named after a site in County Carlow where a well-documented example was excavated, typically involve one or more individuals interred beneath or within a stone-lined grave, accompanied by a single large decorated pot. They date to the fourth millennium BC and are considered relatively rare. At Lisduggan, three sherds fit this Drimnagh Style, while a fourth undecorated fragment may belong to an entirely separate vessel, hinting at a slightly more complex deposition than the classic single-pot formula. Scholars Anna Brindley and Jan Lanting, writing in 1989 to 1990, assessed the available evidence and concluded that this could represent what they termed an orthodox burial of Linkardstown Type. A radiocarbon date obtained from the skeletal remains, recorded as 4585 plus or minus 80 BP under laboratory reference OxA-2681, places the burial firmly in the Neolithic period, consistent with that classification. The site was later the subject of a published account by Mary Cahill and Muiris Sikora in their 2011 study of burial excavations carried out by the National Museum of Ireland between 1927 and 2006.