That uncertainty is, in itself, the most telling thing about them. Grave slabs, typically flat stones set over a burial to mark the spot, were carved with crosses, inscriptions, or decorative knotwork in many cases, making it possible to roughly date them or identify the tradition behind them. These two offer nothing of the sort. They are undecorated, fragmentary, and anonymous, which places them outside the usual frameworks archaeologists reach for when trying to pin down a site.

The slabs were recorded as part of 'The Urban Archaeological Survey of County Limerick', a systematic cataloguing effort compiled by John Bradley, Andrew Halpin, and Heather A. King for the Office of Public Works in 1985. Denis Power compiled the specific entry. The survey records two fragments: slab A measures 124 centimetres in length and between 49 and 56 centimetres in width, with a depth of 15 centimetres; slab B is 100 centimetres long and 58 centimetres wide. Both are limestone, the most common local building and funerary material across Munster, and both sit within the floor of the church rather than standing upright or lying in the surrounding ground. The date is listed simply as uncertain. No further context, patron, or period is given in the record.

The church itself is the frame through which these slabs are best understood. Arriving at a roofless rural ruin in County Limerick, visitors should expect an overgrown site rather than a maintained one, and should wear appropriate footwear for uneven ground. The slabs are in the floor, so looking down rather than around is the practical instruction here. Because neither slab is decorated, there is no iconographic detail to photograph or trace, but the dimensions recorded in the survey give a sense of their presence, each one substantial enough to have covered a grave. What they cannot tell you, and what the record does not supply, is whose grave, or when.