The fact that it survived at all is fortunate; it now exists in two pieces, with a third middle section missing entirely, leaving a gap in both the object and the story it might have told.

The slab is a coffin-shaped piece of sandstone, tapering from head to foot in the way that medieval grave-covers typically do, and would originally have measured somewhere between 1.8 and 1.9 metres in length. What makes it genuinely unusual is the decoration and the craftsmanship behind it. A floriated cross, meaning one whose arms terminate in stylised plant forms, is incised across its face, with four of the diagonal arms originally finishing in fleur-de-lis symbols, of which only the lower two survive. The horizontal arms of the cross, however, end in plain rectangular terminals, which is an uncommon choice for this type of slab. More striking still is a roll-moulding, a rounded raised border, running around the entire edge of the slab and framing the cross. Medieval grave-slabs far more commonly carry a chamfer, an angled cut, at the edge rather than a moulded one, and the presence of the roll-moulding suggests the piece may originally have served as a coffin lid for a sarcophagus rather than simply a cover for a slab-lined grave. There is also a small asymmetry in the fleur-de-lis terminals: the one on the left side of the cross is noticeably larger than the one on the right, a quirk that hints at either workshop individuality or an interrupted hand. Taken together, the style of the fleur-de-lis, the roll-moulding, the tapered sandstone form, and the overall design point to a 13th-century date. The slab is now held at the Tipperary South Riding County Museum, where it can be examined properly rather than glimpsed sideways in a wall.