It is a quietly specific object: not a ruin, not a landscape feature, but a single worked stone bearing a human face, displaced from the place where it once belonged.

The corbel was originally part of Killilagh graveyard, outside Kilfenora, before it was stolen and eventually recovered. The scholar Étienne Rynne, writing in 1976, published a detailed account of the piece and was among those who campaigned to have it brought back to County Clare. His description is precise: a full cleric's head, the biretta clearly rendered, the face projecting from a large stone block. Because the piece falls outside the standard monument registers of the early 1990s, it occupies an odd administrative category, present in the landscape of the record but not formally anchored to it, which perhaps reflects the disrupted history of the object itself.

The Burren Centre in Kilfenora is open to visitors and the corbel can be seen there. Given its scale and the straightforwardness of its setting, it is not the kind of thing that announces itself, but the carved face rewards a close look, particularly the detail of the biretta, which places the figure firmly within clerical medieval iconography and suggests something deliberate and portrait-like in the original carving.