A midden, essentially a refuse deposit where communities disposed of household and occupational waste, had survived intact far below the modern ground surface, its organic contents protected by depth and soil conditions across several centuries.

The excavation, carried out under licence number 93E0131, uncovered an extensive organic spread at an average depth of 1.4 metres. The material was dated to the late-medieval or early post-medieval period, a broad bracket that places it somewhere between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. What came out of the ground was a detailed cross-section of daily existence: partially rotted twigs and fragments of wood, small pieces of charcoal, hazelnut shells, fish bones, sea shells, animal bones, leather, and pottery, alongside plant remains that speak to food production and consumption. The fish and sea shells are particularly worth pausing over. Burgagery-Lands sits well inland, which means those marine materials were either traded or transported some distance, a small but telling detail about the reach of exchange networks in late-medieval Tipperary. Taken together, the deposit reads less like casual littering and more like a sustained, organised dumping ground used by a settled community over time.