The pit had near-vertical sides, a flat base, and a rough paving of stones beneath the urn. Rounded stones and loose soil were packed around it. Then, for roughly three thousand years, nothing disturbed it, until a mechanical digger cutting a drainage channel broke through in 1975.

What emerged was an Encrusted Urn, a type of Bronze Age burial vessel typically decorated with applied and incised ornament on its outer surface. This example was divided horizontally by a raised clay rib, with a zig-zag band or fillet running between the rib and the rim, and roughly scored chevron lines descending from the shoulder to a slightly splayed foot. Inside were the cremated remains of a single adult and three small fragments of a bone pin, perhaps a personal object placed with the dead, or a fastening from clothing worn during the cremation. The site was investigated and published by O'Kelly and Shee, whose account remains the primary record of the find. The burial lay about thirty metres south-east of a ringfort, one of those circular earthwork enclosures so common across the Irish landscape, though the two features are not necessarily related in date or function. Bronze Age burials in Ireland frequently occur in isolation or in loose proximity to other monument types, without any clear organisational logic that later centuries would recognise.