Local tradition holds that stone coffins, known in archaeology as cists, box-like graves constructed from flat slabs and used across prehistoric Ireland, were once uncovered here. The site carried the name the 'Danes burial ground', a label attached across Ireland to ancient earthworks that earlier generations attributed, often loosely, to Viking activity, though the monuments themselves frequently predate the Norse presence by millennia.

The field containing the site was absorbed into Milverton Quarry around 1970, and since then there has been no visible surface trace of what lay there. The references compiled by researchers including Geraldine Stout, and cited from sources by Campion, Healy, and Cahill and Sikora, confirm the tradition of stone coffin burials without fully resolving the age or precise character of the monument. What survives as evidence is more subtle: a cropmark, that is, a pattern visible from the air when differential moisture or soil disturbance causes crops or grass to grow unevenly above buried features, showing a roughly circular area of approximately thirty metres in diameter. This circular form, partially cut through on its western side by a field boundary defined by two ditches, appears on a Google Earth orthoimage taken in July 2013. It may represent the remains of the burial enclosure known locally by its Danes attribution.

There is nothing to see at ground level today. The quarry has consumed whatever physical presence the site once had, and a visit to the area would offer no trace of the monument itself. The interest here is of a different kind, one belonging to maps and aerial photographs rather than to field walking. The cropmark is visible on satellite imagery and offers a faint circular outline that rewards patient looking. For anyone researching the funerary archaeology of north County Dublin, the documentary record, thin as it is, points to a site that was once locally well known, then gradually forgotten, and is now recoverable only through the indirect language of soil and light.