A cist is a type of prehistoric stone-lined grave, typically a small box-like structure built from flat slabs and used to inter the dead, often during the Bronze Age. The burials uncovered here during land reclamation work roughly two years before 2020 were simply found and noted locally, leaving no official trace before that point.

What drew further attention to the site was a cropmark spotted on a Google Earth orthoimage captured on 20 May 2020. Cropmarks form when buried features affect how vegetation grows above them, creating subtle differences in colour or density that become visible from the air, particularly during dry conditions. The pit-shaped mark observed here closely resembles a cropmark associated with a Linkardstown Burial located just 290 metres to the south. Linkardstown burials are a specific type of Irish Neolithic burial monument, typically involving a central cist beneath a mound, named after a site in County Carlow. The proximity of the two cropmarks, and the fact that multiple unrecorded cists had already been disturbed in the same field, suggests this corner of Wicklow may have once formed part of a broader prehistoric funerary landscape, most of which has left only the faintest impression on the surface.