It is all that visibly survives of the Church of Dunmore in County Kilkenny, and it now sits embedded in the external face of the entrance wall of a house directly opposite the church site and its associated graveyard.

The fragment itself is part of the moulded surround of a church doorway, specifically a round-headed arch set within a flat-headed moulded frame, a design that sits at the intersection of late medieval and early modern ecclesiastical building. The date in the spandrel raises a question that the historical record has not fully resolved: it is unclear whether a seventeenth-century church was built on the site to replace an earlier medieval structure, or whether an existing medieval church was simply refitted or remodelled around that time. What is certain is that by the late nineteenth century the building was gone. A record from 1876 to 1878 noted that the Church of Dunmore had been recently thrown down, and that this carved fragment had already been built into the wall of the glebe garden, a garden associated with the local Church of Ireland minister's residence, which suggests someone thought it worth preserving even as the church itself was demolished. Today there is no trace of the church above ground.

The fragment is visible in the wall of the house entranceway, across from the graveyard that still marks where the church once stood. It is easy to walk past without registering what it is, partly because it has been inserted on its side, rotating the composition so that the arch and its date read at an angle rather than as they would have appeared on the original doorway.