No mound, no marker, no indication that anything lies beneath the pasture grass. Yet when archaeologists stripped back the topsoil here in 2001, they found a cremation pit containing a large stone axe set blade-downwards, propped against a post that had once been driven into the base of the pit. The post is long gone, but its position suggests it may have projected above ground, serving as a grave-marker for whoever, or whatever, was interred below.

The site came to light not through any planned investigation but as a consequence of infrastructure works. A sewerage scheme for Castleconnell required a pipeline corridor, and because the route passed through an area of known archaeological potential, close to a likely fording point of the Shannon, testing was required before construction could proceed. Sarah McCutcheon carried out initial test trenching under licence number 01E0319, revealing several features that warranted further attention. Aegis Archaeology, under the direction of Tracy Collins, was then contracted by the local authority to excavate an area of approximately 4,400 square metres, divided into four zones. Area A produced the cremation pit, a shallow circular pit nearby, and what may have been the site of the cremation pyre itself, identifiable by heat-reddened boulder clay. Area B contained evidence of small timber structures, stake-holes and slot-trenches, including a horseshoe-shaped hut with a stone axe deposited within its wall trench, and a second cremation pit holding one individual with no accompanying grave-goods. Area C yielded a fulacht fiadh, a type of prehistoric cooking site typically identified by spreads of fire-cracked stone, along with field boundaries and furrows from later periods. Across the entire excavation, 71 fragments of worked flint and 116 of chert were recovered, along with several axe fragments retrieved from the spoil-heaps. Artefact analysis and dating were, at the time of recording, still in progress.

The site itself has no public access or formal designation as a visitor location, and there is nothing on the surface to distinguish it from the surrounding farmland. It does not appear on Ordnance Survey historic mapping. For anyone with an interest in prehistoric archaeology, the broader Castleconnell area along the Shannon is worth attention for its concentration of early activity, and the excavation report is summarised on the national excavations database at excavations.ie, which gives a more detailed account of the full four-area investigation.