The slab, cut from granite and tapering along its length to just over a metre and a third, carries a Latin cross in low relief with a double outline, the kind of restrained decorative treatment common to early medieval memorial stones. At some point before the church tower at Burgage fell, the slab had been lifted from wherever it originally marked a grave and set horizontally into the tower wall as a lintel above a doorway, its carved face either obscured or simply no longer regarded as significant enough to spare.

The tower's collapse in 1987 brought the slab back into the light, in two fragments. It was Paddy Healy who, in 1993, recorded its details alongside two other graveslabs that had emerged from the same rubble. At that point its whereabouts were uncertain, and for a period it was listed simply as being of unknown location. It was eventually found lying roughly ten metres north-west of the north-west corner of the nearby towerhouse, a fortified tower of the kind built widely across late medieval Ireland. The fact that the slab had been broken and then repurposed as structural material suggests it had already lost its original context long before the tower gave way, its identity as a grave marker absorbed into the pragmatics of later building work.

The site at Burgage More holds several overlapping layers of medieval activity, and the graveslab now rests in the open air close to the towerhouse rather than under any formal protection. For anyone visiting the area, knowing to look a short distance north-west of the towerhouse is the practical detail that separates finding it from walking past entirely.