It is easy to overlook, the kind of fragment that passes for garden decoration unless you know what you are looking at. What it actually is, in all likelihood, is a surviving remnant of the medieval Dominican friary that once stood in this part of town, a chamfered door jamb, meaning a length of stone whose edges have been cut at an angle to soften the line of an opening, measuring roughly 59 centimetres tall, 18 centimetres wide, and 28 centimetres deep.

The Dominican friars established a presence in Tralee during the medieval period, and the friary associated with that community is recorded separately as an archaeological site in its own right. By the time the Urban Archaeology Survey of County Kerry was compiled in 1987, this small piece of dressed stone had already been incorporated into the rockery of the church garden, its original context long gone. How it survived, and how it came to rest in that particular spot, is not recorded. It may have been recognised and kept deliberately, or it may simply have turned up during construction work on the modern church and been set aside rather than discarded. The chamfering on its edge is the clearest indication that it was shaped by a mason for a specific architectural purpose, rather than being a rough building stone.