What emerged from the ground at St. Seachnaill's Church of Ireland graveyard in Dunshaughlin was an oblong of neatly shaped and dressed stone, measuring about 59 cm high, 26 cm wide, and just 7 cm thick, with a human figure carved in low relief on one face. The figure stands frontally, feet turned heel to heel in profile, arms bent at the elbow with hands raised to shoulder height. He wears a high-waisted, knee-length garment resembling an apron. His face, worn by centuries of exposure to the elements, has been reduced to its essentials: large eyes set beneath pronounced orbital ridges, a long nose that flattens and broadens toward the tip, and a mouth that is little more than a lipless slit. There may once have been a short chin beard, suggested by faint incised lines, though weathering has made this uncertain.

The slab was described and published by Helen Roe in 1970, who noted a striking parallel with early medieval Irish stone carving. The crown of the figure's head projects above the top of the slab itself, a quirk she compared to the depiction of Christ in the Crucifixion scene carved on the east face of the pillar stone at Carndonagh, County Donegal, one of the earliest and most distinctive examples of figural stone carving in Ireland. Whether the Dunshaughlin figure represents a religious subject, a patron, or something else entirely is not established. The lower portion of the carving is too chipped and abraded to determine whether the feet originally rested on a suppedaneum, which is a small projecting footrest sometimes used in early Christian imagery of the crucified Christ to indicate that the body is supported rather than simply hanging.

The slab is no longer at Dunshaughlin. It has since been moved to Dublin South City, where it is now held. Because the source notes do not specify a publicly accessible exhibition address, it is worth contacting the relevant heritage or museum contacts before making a special journey. Anyone researching early medieval Irish stone sculpture, or simply curious about how an unassuming fragment of dressed stone can carry so many unresolved questions, will find the published account by Roe a useful starting point. The record was compiled by Paul Walsh and uploaded to the national monuments database at the end of 2014.