When a number of skeletons were uncovered in 1956, north of Mobhi Lane and east of the Church of Ireland at Glasnevin, they were not aligned in the same direction as one another. One lay oriented north to south, another on a northwest to southeast axis. In Christian burial practice, the convention was broadly east to west, allowing the dead to rise facing the rising sun at the Last Judgement. The absence of that shared orientation here suggests something older, more ambiguous, or simply outside the organised framework of ecclesiastical burial.

The site was recorded and compiled by archaeologist Geraldine Stout, and the associated finds were catalogued by the National Museum of Ireland. Alongside the human remains, animal bones were also recovered, a combination that can point to pre-Christian funerary practice, domestic activity, or simply the complicated accumulation of material that tends to accrue on long-used ground. The iron knife found at the site, catalogued under NMI 1960:16, adds another layer of uncertainty. Iron objects placed with the dead appear across a wide span of Irish archaeology, and without more precise dating, the knife alone cannot pin the burial to a particular period. What the assemblage as a whole suggests is a burial event that sits outside easy categorisation.

The location itself is quietly easy to miss. Mobhi Lane runs through a part of north Dublin that has absorbed centuries of change, and the ground where the skeletons were found lies close to one of the city's more recognisable ecclesiastical landmarks without being part of its formal history. There is no marker or visible trace at the findspot today. Those interested in the recovered knife can look it up through the National Museum of Ireland's catalogue reference. The value of the site lies less in what can be seen on the ground and more in what it implies: a patch of north Dublin where people were laid to rest in ways that do not fit neatly into the record, and which a chance discovery in the mid-twentieth century briefly brought to light.