This positioning is part of what makes it worth pausing over. It is not a headstone in the conventional sense, but a slab, substantial enough, measuring 1.3 metres in height above ground and 0.71 metres across, embedded vertically into the earth southeast of the chancel.

The slab is dated 1633, placing it in the decades before the Cromwellian upheaval that would reshape landownership and religious life across Tipperary. Its decoration is carefully considered even if time has softened the detail: a lozenge-shaped cross-head, meaning the cross is set within a diamond form, with fleur-de-lys terminals at each arm. The fleur-de-lys, a stylised lily motif with long roots in European heraldry and ecclesiastical art, appears frequently on Irish funerary monuments of this period, lending a note of Continental influence to what might otherwise seem a purely local object. The surface is now quite worn, which is unsurprising for a piece of carved stone that has been outdoors for nearly four centuries.