Or rather, it should be there. When the site was examined in April 2018, no such stone could be found, neither under the belfry where it was recorded, nor anywhere else in the abbey.

The inscription, as transcribed by T.J. Westropp between 1892 and 1894, reads: HIC JACET JOHANN:S CAPITNS MACNAMARA 1601 ANNA FILIA MAC BRIEN A[VIA ALIAS ?] MACNMARRA ME FIERI FECIT. The Latin translates, roughly, as a memorial to one Johannes, a captain of the MacNamara family, with Anna, daughter of Mac Brien, apparently the person who commissioned the stone to be made, identified as a grandmother or relative of the MacNamaras, though that portion of the inscription appears partially damaged or uncertain. Westropp was a prolific recorder of monuments across Munster, and his late nineteenth-century notes represent one of the few surviving descriptions of many stones that have since moved, deteriorated, or disappeared entirely. What was found under the belfry in 2018 was a different graveslab entirely, lying flat on the ground and bearing an inscription in English rather than Latin, suggesting either that stones have been moved within the abbey at some point, or that Westropp's identification was imprecise, or simply that time and handling have separated a slab from its recorded location.