The ring-headed cross, a form with roots deep in early Christian Ireland, was still being cut into stone here as late as the sixteenth century, which is when these rectangular slabs are thought to originate. What makes the group quietly arresting is not just their age but the evidence of continued use long after they were first laid down.

One of the three slabs was reused at some point and now bears the date 1818, a detail that collapses several centuries into a single stone. Someone in the early nineteenth century, rather than commission a new memorial, repurposed what was already there, perhaps because the slab was simply to hand, or perhaps because the continuity of the spot itself carried meaning. The three slabs were recorded by Carey in 2008, who noted their shared decorative scheme and flagged the possibility of a sixteenth-century date. Whether they were produced by the same hand or workshop, or simply reflect a regional carving tradition, is not clear, but the consistency across all three suggests at minimum a shared visual convention for marking the dead in this part of County Galway.