These are the tools of a blacksmith, carved in careful incised lines into the stone sometime during the sixteenth or seventeenth century, and they mark out this particular grave as something quietly remarkable among the five recumbent slabs that survive within the church.

The slab itself measures 1.78 metres in length and tapers slightly from 0.54 metres at the top to 0.45 metres at the base. At its centre is an incised ringed cross calvary, the kind of cross where a circle intersects the arms, and the carver has used a technique of cutting into the panels formed by that intersection to create the impression of raised relief without actually cutting the stone in the round. The same visual trick is applied to the horseshoe and the tongs beside the shaft. Researcher Robert Chapple, writing in 1995, noted that the outer edge of the ring is left uncut where the head and arms of the cross ought to extend, giving it an unfinished quality that is either deliberate or simply conventional for the type. Below the stepped base of the cross, the hammer and tongs appear again, repeated as though to leave no doubt about what the deceased did for a living. According to local tradition passed on by a Mr C. Potter of Craughwell, the stone is believed to mark the grave of a blacksmith from the nearby townland of Carrigeen. The style of the carving connects it closely to two other slabs lying just to its north within the same church, suggesting a shared workshop tradition or at least a shared visual language among those commissioning memorial stones in this part of Galway during that period.

The vocational imagery is what sets this slab apart. Graveslabs of the period more commonly draw on religious iconography, and while the ringed cross here fulfils that role, the blacksmithing tools are an unusually direct acknowledgement of a working life, rendered with the same care given to the sacred symbols beside them.