It was photographed around 1975. After that, it disappeared. Nobody knows where it is now.

The stone was associated with the Augustinian priory on Saints Island, an Augustinian house being a community of canons following the Rule of St Augustine, a form of religious life that spread widely across medieval Ireland from the twelfth century onward. The fragment was discovered and photographed by N.W. English around 1975, with the details later communicated by historian Harman Murtagh. Based on the style of the carving, a fifteenth-century date has been proposed as consistent with what is visible in the photograph. Where exactly it came from within the priory complex is not recorded, but one suggestion, put forward by archaeologist Con Manning, is that it may originally have formed part of a cloister arcade. A cloister arcade is the covered walkway, typically colonnaded, that ran around the open courtyard at the centre of a monastic complex; carved decorative stonework was a common feature of such structures in late medieval Irish monasteries. Whether the stone was moved before English photographed it, or simply lost to subsequent disturbance or removal, is not known.