The find was part of what is believed to be the burial ground associated with the Franciscan Friary, a religious house whose footprint underlies a considerable stretch of the city. What made this particular section of ground quietly remarkable was not simply the presence of the dead, but the details of how they lay, and what else had accumulated around them over the centuries.

The excavation was carried out by Linda G. Lynch under licence references 02E1665 and 03E1364. Archaeologists recorded the in situ remains of five individuals, four adults and one juvenile, along with a quantity of disarticulated human remains, meaning bones that had been moved or disturbed at some earlier point, likely during subsequent burials in the same ground. This was a common enough occurrence in medieval and post-medieval cemetery use, where space was limited and graves were often reopened over generations. In the north-eastern corner of the excavation, a single coffin was identified, though it presented an unusual problem: no discernible grave-cut could be detected around it. A grave-cut is the trench dug into the earth to receive a burial, and its absence here suggests either significant soil disturbance over time or conditions that prevented the cut from leaving a visible trace in the stratigraphy. The site is recorded under the reference LI005-017143 and is considered likely to form part of the broader Franciscan Friary complex, recorded separately as LI005-079.

This is an archaeological site rather than a publicly accessible monument, and the remains recorded here were encountered during development or investigative groundwork in the city. Anyone with a deeper interest in Limerick's Franciscan history will find more context through the National Monuments Service records, where both the friary complex and this burial ground section are catalogued. The Franciscan presence in Limerick was long and layered, and the ground beneath the modern city continues to yield evidence of it in fragments, a juvenile burial here, a displaced bone there, a coffin with no clear cut to explain it.