The stream running through the valley had been straightened and the grounds landscaped, probably across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, leaving whatever had happened here buried under ornamental tidiness.

The excavation, carried out under licence 02E0153 and compiled by Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy, uncovered seven wholly or partly intact skeletons on the flat area above the slope, along with thirteen isolated bones or groups of bone. The burials were extended inhumations, meaning the bodies were laid out flat rather than crouched, and they had no grave-goods. Almost all were oriented east to west, with heads to the west, a pattern consistent with early Christian burial practice, though one burial broke from the group entirely and lay on a NE to SW axis. Below, near the base of the slope, a dark spread measuring fourteen metres by ten resembled a fulacht fiadh deposit; a fulacht fiadh is a type of prehistoric cooking or industrial site, typically identified by a burnt mound of charcoal-rich soil beside a trough or pit. Here, however, no trough or pit was found beneath it, leaving its character unresolved. Three pits elsewhere on the site contained burnt clay, charcoal, and fragments of burnt animal bone. The most complete of these was roughly circular, just over a metre in diameter, and it was here that the upper portion of a human skeleton, skull, upper arms, and thorax only, was found resting on top of the fill, fully within the pit's circumference and apparently connected to it in some way that the excavation could not fully explain.

The site is not a public heritage site and does not have open visitor access; it lies within what was once private ornamental grounds in the Murphystown area, south Dublin. The excavation record is held in the national archaeological database, and the full report compiled by Stout and Clancy is the primary source for anyone wishing to follow up the details. The landscape today carries little visible trace of what was found beneath it, which is, in its own way, part of what makes the site worth knowing about.