One of its kerbstones has a mortise-like depression cut into its face, apparently designed to accept the edge of the adjoining stone at the corner, locking the frame together the way a carpenter might join two pieces of timber. It is an unusual piece of craft to find in a burial context, and it raises questions that the ground around it only partially answers.

The grave is a composite structure, meaning it is assembled from multiple components rather than formed from a single slab. Recumbent stones lie flat over the burial, while a series of kerb-like slabs frame and separate them: two positioned at the head, five running along the base, and one to the north. A single thin slab still protrudes above ground level on the eastern side, suggesting the kerb continued further than what now survives. There were originally at least five slabs in total. Among those remaining, two are cross-slabs, flat stones carved with a cross, and two carry inscriptions. The grave sits 3.3 metres from the eastern wall of Teampull na bhFear nGonta, a church whose name translates roughly as the Church of the Wounded Men, itself one of several early medieval ecclesiastical structures clustered on this small island in the Shannon. The presence of inscribed slabs places this grave within a tradition of Early Christian memorial practice well documented at Inis Cealtra, where carved and lettered stones have been recorded in some number. The site is discussed by Okasha and Forsyth in their 2001 study of inscriptions, and by Tunney and Manning in a 2015 survey.