At the old graveyard of Kill St Lawrence in County Waterford, a headstone fragment has been documented and then promptly lost. The stone in question is a piece of what may be a 17th-century grave marker, notable for carrying symbols of the Passion, the carved instruments and emblems associated with the crucifixion of Christ, a motif found on a number of east Waterford tombstones from the period. What makes this particular fragment stranger still is that it was itself re-used as a grave-marker at some point, meaning a carved stone that once memorialised one person was repurposed to mark another. When researchers came to verify its presence, it could not be found.

The detail appears in a 1980 article by J. Walton, published in Decies, the journal of the Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society, which surveyed pictorial decoration on tombstones across east Waterford. That survey caught the Kill St Lawrence fragment at a moment when it was apparently still present, or at least remembered. The church it belongs to sits within a rectangular graveyard described as neglected, the whole thing set on a slight rise above the surrounding low-lying landscape, the kind of quiet elevation that old ecclesiastical sites in Ireland often occupy, chosen for drainage and visibility in equal measure.