What survives in the record amounts to a single sentence: a short cist, a cinerary urn, and a piece of bronze. The bronze was not preserved. The urn's whereabouts are unrecorded. The details, as the journal that noted it dryly observed, do not survive.

A short cist is a small stone-lined grave, typically just large enough to contain a crouched body or, as in this case, a cremation burial held in an urn. This one was set within a cairn, a mounded pile of stones that would have marked the burial as something deliberate and visible in the landscape. The cinerary urn would have held the cremated remains of whoever was interred there, a practice common across Ireland during the Bronze Age, roughly 2500 to 500 BC. The fragment of bronze is tantalising precisely because it tells us almost nothing: it could have been a tool, an ornament, or a grave good of some other kind. The fact that it was not preserved means even that slim thread of interpretation is gone. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland recorded the find in 1935, three years after the opening, which itself suggests the excavation was informal rather than a planned archaeological intervention.