The square sits at a central point in the town, the kind of place where people have always gathered, and the discovery is a reminder that the ground underfoot in long-settled Irish towns is rarely as empty as it appears.

The circumstances of the find are sparse: burials were uncovered during construction works in Church Square, Roosky, at some point in the 1940s. Beyond that, the record does not stretch to detail the number of individuals involved, the manner of burial, or whether any associated objects were recovered. Chance finds of this kind, often made quickly and without formal archaeological supervision, were not uncommon in mid-twentieth-century Ireland, when construction proceeded at pace and the legal and institutional frameworks for protecting archaeological material were considerably less developed than they later became. What the discovery does suggest is that Church Square and its surroundings had a funerary or ecclesiastical function at some earlier period, consistent with the kind of use that gave such squares their names and their particular character in Irish market towns.