Alongside the bones lay a small bronze blade, heavily oxidised and broken at its lower end where a rivet-hole had once been. It is the kind of discovery that makes you reconsider the ground beneath ordinary farmland.

The find was made by Michael Horgan on the lands of a Mr John Ryan, and the site was examined the same year by the archaeologist Seán P. Ó Ríordáin, who published his account in 1936. Ó Ríordáin noted that the grave hollow cut to receive the urn was about fifteen inches in diameter, and that the vessel itself was so broken that only the rim could be reconstructed with any confidence. That reconstruction was drawn by a Miss E. Barnes of the National Museum. What survived of the urn showed a decoration of hatched triangles below three parallel lines running around the vessel, all made using impressed cord, a technique common to Bronze Age pottery in which twisted cord is pressed into the clay before firing to leave patterned impressions. The rim bevels inward and carries diagonal cord impressions on its sloped face, and below the decorative band the clay is pinched outward into a raised ridge known as a cordon, placing the vessel in the cordoned urn tradition of the Irish Bronze Age. The clay itself was described as poor and gritty, dark on the outside and brown within.

The precise location of the find within Glenaree was uncertain for some time but was identified by James O'Brien in November 2021, drawing on Ó Ríordáin's original fieldwork. The urn and bronze blade are the principal surviving evidence of a burial that would otherwise have left no surface trace whatsoever. There is nothing to see in the field today, and the finds themselves are held elsewhere, but knowing the coordinates of such a discovery lends a particular quality to the landscape, ordinary as it appears.