One of them was not a conventional cist at all, at least not in any complete sense. A cist is a small stone-lined box grave, typically built from flat slabs to contain a burial, and this particular grave had apparently lost most of its structure. What the workmen found was a scatter of large stones surrounding a deposit of cremated bone, the stones suggesting that a cist had once enclosed the remains but had since collapsed or been disturbed.

The burial was recorded by Doody in 1986 and sits roughly two metres south-west of one of its companion graves. The presence of cremated bone places this find within a funerary tradition common to the Bronze Age in Ireland, when the dead were often burned before interment, with the remains gathered and placed within a stone-built chamber or deposited beneath a cairn. That three such graves were found in proximity to one another suggests this was not an isolated or accidental burial spot, but a place that held some sustained significance for the community that used it, even if the landscape above ground gave no outward sign of that to the men who uncovered it thousands of years later.