The axe, recovered during archaeological testing at a pasture field on the western side of the Camoge River in Knockainy village, was not associated with any identifiable feature or structure. It was simply there, lying at the bottom of a trench, surrounded by the detritus of a much later era. Objects like this, prehistoric in origin and smoothed through careful working of stone, occasionally surface as strays within later archaeological deposits, their original context long since lost. This one remains an outlier, unexplained and unattached.

The testing was carried out in 2007 by archaeologist Brian Halpin, working under licence number 07E385, ahead of the construction of four dwelling houses in the village. Four trenches were cut across the site from east to west. The southernmost trench yielded nothing. The two that followed it, however, revealed medieval disturbance concentrated in the north-eastern corner of the field, and a fourth trench confirmed that this was roughly where the activity ended. Altogether, three irregular, shallow pits were uncovered, containing animal bone, charcoal, and small sherds of medieval pottery. There was no evidence of structural activity of any kind, no post-holes, no walls, no floors. The pits appear to have functioned simply as refuse pits, the kind of informal disposal feature, a medieval midden of sorts, that settlements generated quietly and without ceremony. The site sits in the same field as Tobernaglogh, a named holy well occupying the north-eastern corner adjacent to the river bank.

The field is now in pasture, and nothing of the archaeological deposits would be visible at ground level. For anyone visiting the area around Knockainy, the interest lies more in the landscape context than in any visible remains. The Camoge River runs along the eastern edge of the field, and Tobernaglogh, a holy well, which in Irish tradition often marks a site of long-standing local significance, sits nearby. Holy wells are typically springs or water sources associated with a saint or with pre-Christian veneration, later absorbed into Catholic practice. The combination of a named well, medieval refuse deposits, and a stray prehistoric axe gives this otherwise unremarkable field a quietly layered character that the surface does nothing to advertise.