It lies flat in the centre aisle of the nave of St Mary's church in Callan, Co. Kilkenny, which means that anyone walking up or down that aisle is, in a quiet and slightly uncomfortable sense, treading on a sixteenth-century memorial. The slab is now a fragment, measuring 1.32 metres in length, its cross-head long gone, but the lower portion preserves a banded cross in raised relief, its bands dropping on either side of the shaft and folding neatly into the border above a stepped cross-base. Around the surviving edges, a Latin inscription runs in raised Black Letter script, the angular letterforms typical of late medieval monumental carving.

The inscription commemorates Philip Troddy, who died on the fifteenth of February 1563. It was transcribed by Carrigan in 1905, who rendered the Latin as identifying Troddy as a former judge, possibly a seneschal, and court notary of the town of Callan. A seneschal was an administrative officer who could hold judicial functions on behalf of a lord or borough, so Troddy was evidently a figure of some local standing, the kind of man whose civic role warranted a carefully lettered stone. When Carrigan examined the slab in the early twentieth century, it was in better condition: he noted a cross at the centre and recorded that one corner, carrying the opening words "Hic jacet" (here lies), had already broken away. That missing corner fragment may be the piece now lying a few metres to the west of the main slab. Since Carrigan's time, further damage has accumulated. The left-hand border has broken away along part of its edge, taking portions of the inscription with it, and the right-hand border has spalled midway along the surviving stone, leaving the text incomplete on both sides.