Both ends are gone, the top right side is broken away, and what remains measures just over a metre in length. It is easy to walk past without a second glance, yet what the fragment retains is quietly elaborate: the slab is bevelled along its edges, and traces of a raised cross are still legible on its surface.

An illustration published by McKeon in 2009 allows us to read the design more fully than the damaged stone alone would suggest. The left terminal of the cross, now lost, once ended in a fleur-de-lis, the stylised lily motif common in medieval decorative carving. At the centre sat a roundel, a circular boss, also carved with a cross. Below the roundel, the stem of the cross bears a bulbous protrusion and curling tendrils, giving the composition a botanical quality that sits somewhere between formal liturgical ornament and the older Irish tradition of interlace and organic form. This kind of decorated graveslab was a marker of some social or ecclesiastical standing; the craft invested in even a fragmentary piece like this one suggests it was made for someone of consequence within the community attached to the friary.

The Dominican church at Athenry, founded in the thirteenth century, still stands as a substantial ruin in the town, and the slab lies in situ within the nave. The carving rewards close attention at ground level, where the low relief of the raised cross and the surviving details of the stem become easier to distinguish.