A stoup is a basin, usually carved from stone and fixed near the entrance of a church, in which water was blessed for the ritual use of those entering. Whoever incorporated it into the wall at Crusheen may have done so deliberately for convenience, or perhaps without fully recognising what it was. It sat there, unremarked, until renovation work exposed it.

The stoup is now held in the restored tower house at Dysert O'Dea, a fortified medieval residence, roughly rectangular and several storeys tall, of the kind built by Gaelic and Anglo-Norman lords across Ireland from the fourteenth century onward. Dysert O'Dea is a site with considerable archaeological depth, and the tower house forms part of a broader complex there. The stoup arrived as a kind of displaced object, its original home unknown, its journey from wherever it was first carved to a church wall in Crusheen and then onward to Dysert O'Dea unrecorded. What the 1994 renovations at Crusheen were responding to, and who made the decision to transfer the fragment rather than discard it, is not documented. It is the sort of small, unglamorous rescue that leaves no narrative behind it, only the object itself and a brief notice explaining where it came from.