It spent centuries buried roughly half a metre beneath the churchyard soil, close to the ruins of the Lady Chapel, before being lifted to its current position in October 1928. That it survived so well is partly a matter of good fortune and partly one of geology; limestone takes carving cleanly, and this slab, at nearly two metres long and a shade under three-quarters of a metre wide, offered a generous surface for whoever commissioned it.

The decoration is precise and deliberate. A seven-armed segmental-headed cross, its terminals shaped into fleur-de-lis, rises in relief from the stone. The cross-shaft is articulated by knops, a decorative swelling or bulge used to mark the junction between shaft and cross-head, with a two-barred knop beneath the cross-head and a three-barred knop at the base, where the shaft meets a carved pillar-base form. Around the border, in Black Letter script, the Latin inscription reads: here lies Edmund, son of John Everard, who died on the sixth day of the month of March, in the year 1508; on whose soul may God have mercy. Amen. The translation and transcription were published by O'Leary in 1928, and the slab belongs to the medieval parish church of St John the Baptist, the building that became the Church of Ireland's Holy Trinity. The Everards were an Anglo-Norman family settled in Tipperary, and a commemorative slab of this quality, with its careful iconography and formal Latin border, points to a family of some standing marking a death with appropriate formality.

The slab is accessible within the church porch, which means it can be seen without entering the main building. The chamfered edge, a bevelled border cut at an angle to give the slab a slightly finished profile, is visible if you crouch to look at the stonework in low light. The carved relief is shallow in places, so positioning yourself to catch raking light from the side helps pick out the full detail of the cross and its terminals.