What makes it quietly arresting is precisely its plainness. No carved cross, no inscription, no knotwork or figural decoration of any kind marks its surface. For a medieval funerary slab, that absence is unusual; most surviving examples from Irish abbeys carry at least a rudimentary incised cross, if not a full effigy or epitaph. This one offers nothing of the sort.

The slab is tapering in form, measuring 1.48 metres in length and narrowing from 0.68 metres at the top to 0.56 metres at the base, with only about five centimetres visible above the ground level of the nave. This tapered shape is a standard feature of medieval graveslabs, broadly following the outline of a shrouded body. The abbey itself is a Dominican foundation, the Dominicans being the Order of Preachers established in the thirteenth century, and their Irish houses frequently served as burial sites for local families of standing. Maher, writing in 1997, noted this particular slab among the abbey's fabric, though the lack of any identifying marks means the person beneath it, if indeed the slab is still in its original position, remains entirely unknown.