Oval in shape, roughly the size of a large chopping board, with smooth rounded edges and a flat upper surface, it had been built into the entrance wall of a farmyard at some point before anyone thought to record it formally. What made it notable was a small, deliberate circular depression cut into one end of its upper face, a hollow too precise and too shallow to be accidental wear, and too modest to be ornamental in any obvious way. Whether it served a liturgical function, a domestic one, or something else entirely remains an open question, because the stone is gone.

When it was recorded in 1994, the fragment measured approximately 0.42 metres by 0.31 metres, with a thickness of around 0.15 metres, and the depression was 0.18 metres in diameter and 0.09 metres deep. Its proximity to a possible Cistercian abbey, the remains of which lie a short distance to the northeast, gives at least one plausible context. The Cistercians, a monastic order that arrived in Ireland during the twelfth century and built in a characteristically austere Romanesque and early Gothic style, left behind architectural fragments at numerous sites across the country, many of which were later absorbed into field boundaries, farm buildings, and roads as convenient cut stone. This piece may have been one such fragment, repurposed long after the abbey it came from fell out of use. By 2004, it had disappeared from the wall entirely, and is believed to have been stolen.