The stone records a man's name and the fact of his death, and then, where the date and parentage should be, it simply stops.

The slab is a substantial piece of work, tapering from 0.88 metres at the top to 0.76 metres at the base, and it is carved in relief with a seven-armed cross whose head is segmental rather than the more familiar circular wheel shape. Each of the seven arms ends in a fleur-de-lis, and at the junction of the cross-head and shaft there is a three-barred knop, a decorative raised boss. The lower portion of the cross has not survived; the remaining fragments have been cemented back into position, and the upper portion is cracked along the right-hand side. Running along the two long edges, across the base and top, and on either side of the shaft, is an inscription in Black Letter script, the angular Gothic lettering common to medieval ecclesiastical stonework. When Walter FitzGerald transcribed it in the early twentieth century, he rendered the legible portions as HIC JACET PETRUS CANTUUELL FILIUS, followed by gaps, and then OBIIT, meaning "here lies Peter Cantwell, son of, who died." On the opposite face appear what seem to be placenames: POITILIBAN and O ICESTO, with ET COULKEN and, in a later reading, ET OWLKEIN MENSIS along the shaft. The Cantwells were a prominent Anglo-Norman family in Tipperary, and the placenames may indicate lands or territorial associations, though the precise reading remains incomplete. Peter's parentage and the date of his death are lost to the damaged stone.