It measures roughly half a metre by a little over twenty centimetres, chipped around every edge and with a surface that has spalledover time, meaning the stone has shed thin layers, blurring what detail once existed. Along one edge, a raised border frames an inscription in Black Letter script, the dense Gothic lettering common on medieval ecclesiastical stonework, but the text is no longer legible. Whatever name or dedication it once carried is gone.

The fragment sits in the graveyard attached to the medieval parish church of St John the Baptist, now the Holy Trinity Church of Ireland building, and its position is oddly specific: set into the wall roughly seven and a half metres west of Edmond's Castle, a tower house that also abuts the town defences. Fethard is one of the better-preserved walled medieval towns in Ireland, and its walls have been put to use across many centuries, with later structures leaning against them, building into them, or cannibalising their fabric entirely. This graveslab, or what remains of it, appears to have been incorporated into the wall at some point, whether during original construction or a later phase of repair or reuse is not clear. What is clear is that a piece of funerary stonework, once intended to mark and name someone, ended up as building material, its inscription facing inward, weathering slowly in the company of the dead it was presumably once meant to commemorate.