The slab is presumed still present, possibly buried, overgrown, or simply face-down among the other stones, but its precise whereabouts remain unconfirmed.

The inscription carved into the slab was first transcribed in 1891 by Vigors, who recorded the Latin text as commemorating one Jacobus Brittiss of Kelosty, a generosus, meaning a gentleman of some social standing, who died on the 25th of November 1621. His wife, Katherine Meagher, is named as the person who commissioned the monument, doing so on the 15th of September 1623, nearly two years after her husband's death and apparently in anticipation of it serving as a memorial for their descendants as well. A later translation published by Quinn between 1898 and 1900 rendered the names quite differently, identifying the deceased as James Butler of Kiltinan and adding a third figure, Thomas Butler, Baron of Dunboyne, who supposedly died in May 1600. That reading appears to be incorrect. The Latin does not support it. The name transcribed as Brittiss more plausibly corresponds to Brittas, a placename in Tipperary, and Kelosty to Killusty, a nearby townland, making the most reasonable interpretation that the slab commemorates James Brittas of Killusty, a local gentleman, and his wife Katherine Meagher. The confusion likely arose from the presence of Butler family associations in the broader Kiltinan area, but the inscription itself gives no grounds for that identification. It is a small example of how early antiquarian transcriptions, made in difficult conditions from worn stone, could introduce errors that then circulated unchallenged for generations.