A midden, the layered refuse of earlier human habitation, typically built up over generations from discarded shells, bones, ash, and other organic material, was reported exposed in the dune face here. Middens are among the more quietly eloquent archaeological features in the Irish coastal landscape; they record not dramatic events but daily life, diet, and the slow accumulation of ordinary existence.

The site came to attention through local knowledge, reported by Michael Gibbons, and when it was subsequently inspected, no visible trace could be found. The midden had either been eroded away by the sea and wind that work constantly at exposed dune faces along this coastline, or it had been reburied beneath shifting sand. Both outcomes are common along the Atlantic fringe, where the same dune systems that preserve archaeological material for centuries can just as readily reclaim it. What was briefly readable in the dune profile had, by the time anyone looked closely, closed over again.