That last detail is not a modern judgement but an admission carved into the monument's own scholarly reception: when the antiquarian R.A.S. Macalister examined the plaque in 1913, he noted frankly that the text defied direct translation because whoever composed it did not have sufficient command of either French or Latin. The slab, roughly 83 centimetres wide and a metre tall, is rectangular, fractured at the bottom left corner, and carved with heraldic imagery: a lion rampant, a Latin cross, an esquire's helmet with mantling, and a right hand holding a sword.

The inscription, mixing English, French, and Latin, is the work of a family asserting its survival. The English portion identifies the monument as the restored burial place of the sept of Walls of Droghty, a Gaelic sept whose original sepulchre had been demolished during the Cromwellian campaigns of the mid-seventeenth century. By 1682, Walter Wall mhic Peadair, meaning Walter Wall son of Peter, had the memorial reedified, as the text puts it, for his own and his posterity's use. The French verses gesture at the family's martial pride, crediting the lion on the shield with carrying off the prize of victory, though the grammar wobbles considerably. The Latin fragment, partially damaged and imperfectly composed even before the fracture, confirms the family emblems as the cross and the lion and associates the name Walla with an ancient and noble lineage. The sedilia in which the plaque originally sat is a niche built into a church wall to seat clergy during services, and the monument's placement there, at the centre of the chancel's north wall, was a considered claim to prestige within the sacred space. It has since been moved to the wall to the west of that niche, a modest relocation that nonetheless shifts it from the position its patron so deliberately chose.