It tapers from a width of thirty-two centimetres at the top to nineteen at the base, and its surface carries an incised floriated cross, meaning a cross whose arms end in leaf or flower-like decorative forms, a style common to medieval funerary carving across Ireland. The shaft and base of the cross have worn away to the point where they can no longer be read, but enough remains to place the slab stylistically in the thirteenth or fourteenth century.

The slab is one of a larger group uncovered during a clean-up of the graveyard at Newtown Earley between 1985 and 1987, work that was documented by R. Harte in the Old Kilkenny Review. Newtown Earley had a medieval church at its centre, and graveslabs of this kind were typically commissioned markers for the dead, laid flat over a grave or set against a wall. They are modest objects compared to the elaborate effigies found in larger ecclesiastical sites, but they preserve something of the visual language of the period, the floriated cross in particular appearing with some consistency across Kilkenny and the broader Leinster region during the high and late medieval centuries. This example now lies inside the roofless shell of the church itself, sheltered from further weathering along with the other slabs retrieved from the graveyard during the same campaign.