The two pits at Ballyclogh were identified during excavation work carried out by archaeologist Gill McLoughlin as part of the N11 road improvement scheme. What made them particularly interesting was their relationship to an adjacent burnt mound, a fulacht fiadh in the older terminology, which is a type of site typically associated with outdoor cooking or industrial heating, built around a trough filled with water into which fire-heated stones were dropped. The Ballyclogh pits pre-dated that burnt mound entirely, placing them in an earlier phase of activity on the same ground. Early Neolithic pits of this kind sometimes contain pottery, charred plant remains, animal bone, or flint, materials that offer glimpses into the domestic or ritual lives of the people who dug them, though the precise contents and function of these particular features were recorded as part of McLoughlin's excavation report rather than elaborated in the site record itself. The finds and interpretation would sit within that specialist literature.