The bones, scattered and displaced by the machinery, had originally belonged to a single individual laid out in what is called an extended burial, meaning the body was placed flat and straight rather than crouched or folded, in a shallow pit measuring roughly two metres along its northeast to southwest axis and about one metre across. A thigh bone, possible arm bones, rib fragments, a shattered skull, and a notably well-preserved set of teeth were recovered and recorded.

Personnel from the Office of Public Works inspected the remains on 2nd May 1984. Their assessment placed the burial as late in date, with the possibility that it was Famine era, which would situate it somewhere in the late 1840s or early 1850s, the period of the Great Famine when death came so rapidly and in such numbers that conventional burial in consecrated ground was not always possible. Shallow graves in fields were not uncommon. The informality of this particular burial, its shallow depth and the absence of any apparent grave goods or formal marking, is quietly consistent with that context, though no firm dating was established. The bones themselves, scattered by the plough, could not tell the whole story, only enough to suggest that someone, at some point of crisis or isolation, was interred here with whatever care the circumstances allowed.