It was originally one of a pair, its mirror-image companion lost at some point, leaving this single figure as the only hint of what was once a symmetrical composition.

The slab, known in the archaeological record as Stone H, was recovered from the early monastic site at Riasc on the Dingle Peninsula, where it had been reused as part of a ceallúnach grave inside the oratory. A ceallúnach is a burial ground associated with an early Christian church or monastic enclosure, often used for unbaptised children or others excluded from consecrated ground, though in some cases simply an older Christian cemetery attached to a religious site. The slab's reuse as grave material suggests it had already outlived whatever its original function was, perhaps a grave marker or votive stone, before being pressed into service a second time. The face is smooth-dressed, and the design is recessed rather than raised, a Maltese cross set within a square frame, a decorative formula found across early medieval Irish and insular Christian stonework. The peacock, in early Christian iconography, carried associations with immortality and resurrection, which would have made it a fitting companion to a cross on funerary or devotional stonework. The slab is now held at Baile an Fheirtéaraigh, the village known in English as Ballyferriter, on the western end of the Dingle Peninsula.