It is easy to walk past without noticing, partly because the wall itself appears unremarkable, a functional piece of early nineteenth-century coastal engineering built around 1800, and partly because the carving has softened over time to the point where it reads more as a suggestion than a statement. A second carved stone sits roughly a hundred metres further along the same wall, the two of them spaced apart in the stonework like quiet punctuation.

Neither stone was made for the wall. The current thinking is that both pieces were likely taken from the medieval church site at Ballyhack, which stands on a cliff-top approximately five hundred metres to the west. This was a common enough fate for dressed or decorated stonework when a convenient building project came along; carved stones from abandoned or ruinous ecclesiastical sites were frequently pressed into service as ordinary building material, their original function forgotten or simply set aside. At Arthurstown, whoever laid the sea-wall placed them face-inward at the top, which may reflect a degree of care, keeping the carved surfaces visible and sheltered from the worst of the weather, or may simply be coincidence. The Ballyhack church site is on the cliff edge above the water, and the physical proximity between that source and this wall makes the connection plausible, even if it cannot be confirmed with certainty.

The stones are accessible along the inner face of the sea-wall at Arthurstown, a small village on the western shore of Waterford Harbour in County Wexford. The carved face on the primary stone measures roughly thirty-five centimetres high and thirty-three centimetres wide, so it is modest in scale. The wear is considerable, but the relief carving is still legible if you are looking for it.