The skeletal remains of a middle-aged adult male came to light, an unannounced encounter between modern agricultural ambition and a burial that had gone undisturbed for an unknown stretch of time.

The mound itself is the kind of feature that would have once been a common presence across the Irish countryside, an earthen rise that might have been passed over for generations without much thought, until machinery changed the calculation. The precise age of the burial and the cultural context surrounding it are not recorded in what survives about the site, but the discovery was significant enough that the monument was subsequently placed under a preservation order, issued in 1958, offering it a degree of legal protection under the National Monuments Acts. That a protection order followed so quickly after the find suggests the site was considered to retain archaeological significance even after the disturbance it had already suffered.