The object is a section of a door jamb cut in two chamfered orders, meaning it was shaped with two angled receding edges, the kind of careful stonework associated with a church or substantial building of some standing. What makes it quietly odd is the repurposing: a fragment that originally framed an entrance, giving passage from one space to another, has been laid flat or set upright to mark the passage of a person instead.

The stone carries punch dressing on its reveal, a technique in which a pointed tool was used to work the surface of the stone, leaving a textured, stippled finish. This treatment dates the piece to the sixteenth century, placing it within a period of active ecclesiastical building and rebuilding across Munster. How it came to be separated from its original structure is not recorded, but the practice of reusing dressed stone was extremely common in rural Ireland, particularly after the dissolution of religious houses and the gradual abandonment or ruination of medieval churches. The fragment sits near the south-west corner of the graveyard, to the south of the church at An Gróbh, its original architectural purpose quietly legible to anyone who knows what chamfered stonework looks like, even as it now serves an entirely different function.