Cnoc Raithní — "the hill of bracken" — is a low Bronze Age tumulus a short walk from the strand. The mound itself is unspectacular at first glance: a rise of stone and earth perhaps a metre high. What makes it remarkable is the find that emerged here when a storm in 1885 cleared the covering of sand: a number of pottery cinerary urns, inverted over the cremated remains of the dead, along with a small bronze pin.
The finds are now in the National Museum in Dublin, and the site is back to its quiet patch of dune grass. A National Monument since 1888, it is worth the five-minute walk from the church or the strand to stand on the same low rise and consider that people have been buried here on this small island for thousands of years.