Positioned in the north wall of the friary church, beneath the fourth window from the east, the slab measures just over a metre and a half in height and carries no decorative carving at all. Its only ornament is text, incised in plain English capitals, and that text turns out to be quietly dense with social history.

The slab commemorates Frances Minchin, who died on the fourth of September 1696. The inscription identifies her with some care, locating her within the network of gentry families to which she belonged: wife to John Minchin of Anna, only daughter to Daniel Ryan of Inch, and described as a "relig" of one Valentine, owner of Clashmore in County Waterford. "Relig" here is an abbreviation of "relict", an older term for a widow, which indicates that Frances had been married to Valentine before her marriage to John Minchin, though the stone's text is partially damaged at that point. What survives is enough to trace a woman connected to landed families across Tipperary and Waterford in the years following the upheavals of the late seventeenth century. Then, almost as an afterthought, the inscription adds that the tomb has been assigned to one Mary Kennedy, for her interment only, by a party whose name is now lost to damage or incomplete carving. The slab thus carries the records of at least two women's lives, and gestures toward a third, unnamed person who once had authority over it.