The piece is described as cusped tracery, which is the ornamental stonework once used to subdivide the openings of Gothic windows, typically cut into curving, pointed lobes called cusps. Finding such a fragment in a graveyard setting suggests that an earlier ecclesiastical structure once stood nearby, its dressed stonework eventually scattered or repurposed as the building fell out of use.

The fragment came to notice in 2012, reported by C. Cunniffe. Beyond that, the record is spare. No dimensions are given, no detail about where precisely within the graveyard it was found, and no firm date for the building it once belonged to. Cusped tracery of this kind is most commonly associated with late medieval church architecture in Ireland, a period when local patrons and craftsmen adapted Gothic forms that had filtered across from Britain and the continent. The style was in widespread use from roughly the thirteenth century onward, though it persisted in Irish rural churches well into the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Without further analysis of this particular piece, it is difficult to say more about its age or origin.