During land reclamation works carried out around 2018, a number of cists came to light, disturbed and unrecorded. A cist is a small stone-lined box grave, typically dating to the Bronze Age, used to contain a crouched or cremated burial. The fact that multiple examples appear to have been uncovered in a single field, and that none of them entered the archaeological record at the time, speaks to how routinely such discoveries can pass unnoticed when they occur outside a formal dig.

What brought the site to attention was not the ground itself but an aerial image. A cropmark, the faint shadow that buried features cast on growing vegetation when viewed from above, appeared on a Google Earth orthoimage taken in May 2020. The mark resembles a pit feature, and its shape is notably similar to a cropmark associated with a recorded Linkardstown burial located approximately 290 metres to the south. Linkardstown burials are a distinctive class of Neolithic monument, typically involving a large stone cist beneath a mound, and are relatively rare. Whether the cropmark at Ballintruer More represents one of the disturbed cists uncovered during land reclamation, or something else entirely, remains an open question. The information was passed on by Robert Hanbidge and compiled in October 2020.