In the late 19th century, reminiscences of the various archæological features which he or his forebears had removed over the previous fifty years were recorded from nearby farmer David Bodel. These features included a standing stone, two flat cemeteries, a cemetery mound containing several stone kists, several scattered kist-burials, a ritual pit containing burnt material, a mound containing a megalithic tomb, and various carved stone artifacts.

Similar sites were found in the adjoining fields of his neighbours, Messrs. Thompson, McKeown and Russell: effectively the whole area of the small plateau which still yields flint artefacts after ploughing.

More recently, air photography revealed a line of three small round barrows only 75 metres to the south west, and a site known as Ballynahatty 5 has been excavated, revealing that the plateau can be compared with Stonehenge in the variety and sequence of its monuments, both wood and stone.

This was a Sacred Landscape which acted as a magnet for possibly hundreds of burials and thousands of rites and ceremonies through the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages.