The location of the find, just outside a bawn and roughly twenty metres from its south-eastern angle, is what lends it its quiet strangeness. A bawn is the fortified enclosure wall that typically surrounds an Irish tower house or plantation-era castle, designed to protect livestock and provide a defensible outer yard. To be buried just outside that boundary, rather than within a churchyard or beneath a church floor, raises questions that the ground has not yet answered.

The bawn in question is associated with both a castle and a 17th-century house at Inchmore, the three elements forming a cluster of connected structures that together suggest a site occupied across several centuries. The human remains lay approximately 3.8 metres to the east of the bawn wall when they were disturbed. Whether the burial predates the bawn, is contemporary with its construction, or belongs to some later period entirely is unclear. What is certain is that whoever was interred here was placed outside the formal boundaries of the associated settlement, in ground close to the river.