The graveslab is recumbent, meaning it lies horizontal rather than standing upright, and its inscription runs around the entire perimeter of the stone, carved in raised Roman capitals. At the centre, also in raised relief, is a cross. The Latin reads: HIC JACET RICARDUS BERMINGHAM NOBILIS DE BALLYHOMICK QUI OBIT XXV JUNII ANNO DNI MDCLXXII, which translates as "Here lies Richard Bermingham of Ballyhomick who died on the 25th of June in the year of our Lord 1672." It is a small, precise, and quietly affecting piece of work.

The Richard Bermingham named on the slab almost certainly matches a man of the same name recorded in the Civil Survey of 1654 to 1656, which catalogued land ownership across Ireland in the aftermath of the Cromwellian wars. That survey lists one Richard Brymiidgham, an anglicised spelling of Bermingham, as the proprietor in 1640 of the lands of Ballyhomuck. His holding amounted to 109 acres in total: 80 arable, 24 pasture, and 5 of woodland, with a combined annual value of ten pounds. The Berminghams were a family of Anglo-Norman origin long established in Ireland, and the Latin epithet "nobilis" on the slab, meaning a man of noble or gentle standing, fits with that background. He died in 1672, roughly three decades after the survey recorded his landholding, and was laid to rest in the church on his own estate.