The renovation work exposed a partly articulated human skeleton along with scattered bone fragments across ground that had clearly been disturbed before. Before any formal archaeological investigation could be arranged, the remains of an estimated six further individuals had already been removed from the site. It was, from the start, an excavation that had to work backwards through layers of disruption.

The subsequent licensed investigation, carried out under Licence no. 97E0272 and documented by Dunne in 1998, uncovered five more partly articulated skeletons. Their orientations were consistent with Christian burial practice, typically an east-west alignment of the body, and this detail places them in a tradition that predates the construction of the vicarage itself, which dates to the seventeenth century. The building's foundations had cut through the earlier cemetery, scattering and displacing the remains over time. Swords has a long ecclesiastical history, and the presence of a Christian burial ground beneath a later church-associated building is, in that context, less surprising than the manner in which it came to light. What the site makes plain is how often early medieval or post-medieval burial grounds were built over without any record being kept, leaving their existence to be discovered only when later structures begin to be altered or pulled apart.

The Old Vicarage is a private building rather than a public site, and there is no formal visitor access to the excavated area. The burial ground itself is no longer visible. For anyone with an interest in the archaeology of the Swords area, the published record by Dunne, cited in the 1998 report, remains the most detailed account of what was found and how it was interpreted. The site serves as a reminder that ground surveys and casual renovation work can, and regularly do, intersect with layers of occupation and burial that were never mapped or formally acknowledged.