The ground is ordinary pasture, the aerial photographs show no trace of what lies beneath, and the Ordnance Survey's historic maps never recorded anything here at all. Yet in 1986, archaeologists working ahead of a gas pipeline found something quietly significant: a pit containing flecks of cremated bone, fragments of animal bone, and two sherds of plain, undecorated pottery. Objects like these, modest as they are, point to human activity of some antiquity, most likely prehistoric, though the excavation records do not specify a precise period.

The discovery came about not through any planned archaeological investigation but as a consequence of infrastructure works associated with the Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. Eoin Grogan led the excavation in 1986, opening an area measuring 11.50 metres by 7.50 metres. Within that space, the team found a curved ditch running along the northern edge of the site, a small oval pit, and several post and stake holes, the latter being the kind of narrow, driven timber supports that might once have held a lightweight structure upright. The main pit itself, located 3 metres to the south-east of the curved ditch, extended beyond the fence line, so only part of it could be excavated. What was recorded measured roughly 1.75 metres by 1.54 metres, with steep sides and a gently curved base, about 56 centimetres deep. The cremated bone and pottery in its fill suggest the pit had some connection with ritual or funerary use, though no firm conclusions could be drawn. The results were summarised by Gowen in 1988 and Grogan in 1987.

The site has been fully excavated and there is nothing left to see at ground level. It sits in wet pasture, roughly 20 metres north of the townland boundary with Stephenstown, and does not appear on any historic mapping. For anyone interested in the archaeology of the Irish midlands and the sometimes accidental nature of discovery, the significance here is less about what remains visible and more about what the pipeline trenches happened to interrupt: a cluster of features, cremated remains, and two small fragments of pottery that had been quietly undisturbed beneath a Limerick field for an indeterminate stretch of centuries.