The bones were disarticulated, meaning they had not been buried as complete, intact bodies in the conventional sense, but were instead jumbled together in a deposit of brown silty soil. That combination, human and animal remains intermingled without the usual arrangement of formal burial, is the kind of detail that quietly unsettles assumptions about how the medieval dead were treated.

Archaeologists from the National Museum of Ireland carried out a brief investigation after the discovery. The deposit appeared to form part of the fill of a ditch belonging to Castle Comfort, a medieval fortification immediately adjacent to the find spot. A castle ditch was essentially the defensive trench dug around a fortified structure, and over time such ditches were often used as convenient places to dispose of material, including, apparently, bones. Radiocarbon dating of the remains produced a calibrated date range of 1290 to 1430 AD, placing them firmly in the late medieval period. Whether the bones ended up in the ditch fill deliberately or as the incidental result of later disturbance is not recorded. The site is documented in the published volume by Cahill and Sikora, Breaking Ground, Finding Graves, a 2011 National Museum of Ireland survey of burial excavations conducted between 1927 and 2006, where Farnane is covered in the second volume.

Farnane is a townland in County Limerick, and Castle Comfort, the adjacent fortification referenced in the archaeological record, carries the kind of name that invites curiosity on its own. The site is not a formal visitor attraction, and there is no marked access point or interpretive signage. Anyone with a serious interest in the find would be best served by consulting the published record or the Sites and Monuments Record entry before visiting the general area, as the significance of the location is not visible at ground level. The cattle pen itself is the most enduring monument to the discovery.