It measures just under two metres in length and carries an incised ringed cross calvary, a cross set within a circle, a form associated with funerary carving in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. What makes it worth looking at closely is a subtle piece of craft: the panels formed where the arms of the cross meet the ring have been incised in such a way as to suggest raised relief, though the stone surface is not actually carved in three dimensions. The effect is of depth that does not quite exist, a visual trick worked in a modest medium.

The church at Killora contains five of these recumbent graveslabs in total, all broadly of the same period. Recumbent slabs of this kind lie flat over or near a burial, functioning as a permanent marker worked in stone rather than a raised monument. The particular slab beside the south wall was documented by Robert M. Chapple in 1995, who noted its border of two parallel incised lines running around the edge of the stone and observed that its carving style is closely comparable to three others within the same building. Though none of the five slabs carries a legible date, their decorative vocabulary places them firmly within a recognisable tradition of sixteenth and seventeenth century burial practice in the west of Ireland, when ringed cross designs of this type were a common, if carefully executed, choice for commemorating the dead.