It measures less than two-thirds of a metre tall and not quite half a metre wide, modest even by the standards of early modern grave markers. What makes it quietly arresting is the decoration carved onto its face: a raised three-armed cross, each arm terminating in a lozenge, that angular diamond shape used across medieval and post-medieval Irish stonework to add weight and formality to a design.

Flanking the cross-shaft are initials, placed in the heraldic fashion of dexter and sinister, meaning the right and left sides as they would appear from the front. On the dexter side are the letters I or J and W, on the sinister side C C. The ambiguity between I and J is not unusual for the period; the two letters were often treated as interchangeable in early modern script and carving, which makes precise identification of the individual difficult. The style of the lettering points to a seventeenth-century date, placing the slab in a period when personalised grave markers of this kind were becoming more common across Ireland, though still far from standardised. The back of the slab has been only roughly dressed, suggesting it was always intended to be seen from one side only, set into the ground or against a boundary, exactly as it stands now.