Around 1980, during groundworks for the barn's construction, a large quantity of skeletal remains was uncovered. Rather than halt the project, the bones were reburied in place and the building raised above them. No excavation appears to have taken place, and whoever those people were, and whenever they were laid in the ground, they remain unidentified beneath the concrete and timber of an agricultural outbuilding.

The site sits within a cluster of older features that suggest this corner of Kilkenny was occupied and used over a long stretch of prehistory. Roughly 100 metres to the south-west lies a ringfort, the kind of circular enclosure, typically defined by an earthen bank and ditch, that served as a farmstead during the early medieval period, broadly from around 500 to 1200 AD. Further out, at approximately 200 and 250 metres to the south-west and west-south-west respectively, are two fulachta fia. These are burnt mound sites, the remains of outdoor cooking or processing areas used during the Bronze Age, recognisable today as horseshoe-shaped mounds of fire-cracked stone and dark, charcoal-rich soil beside a water source. Whether the burial predates, coincides with, or postdates any of these features is unknown. No date has been established for the bones, and the absence of any formal investigation means the question is likely to remain open.