The indignity is readable in the stone itself: a depression some 23 centimetres wide and 6 centimetres deep, cut into what had once been the underside of a carefully decorated funerary monument. It is the kind of repurposing that tells you something about the distance between the reverence a craftsman invested in an object and the pragmatism of whoever needed a drain.

The slab itself survives in two pieces, broken diagonally across its width, and represents only the central portion of what was originally a tapering graveslab. The upper section measures roughly 84 centimetres in length and just over half a metre across at the top; the lower narrows to 30 centimetres at the base. What remains of the decoration is carved in low false-relief, a technique in which the design is raised slightly from a recessed background rather than cut deeply into the stone. The centrepiece is a three-armed cross-head, its terminals finished in fleur-de-lis forms, though the upper terminal and the tip of the left-hand terminal are now lost. Below the cross-head, curling foliate motifs grow from either side of the shaft, adding a sense of organic movement to what is otherwise a formal composition. Stylistically, the slab has been dated to the 13th or 14th century. It is one of a substantial group of medieval funerary monuments associated with Kells Priory, an Augustinian house, a community of canons following the Rule of St Augustine, whose remains constitute one of the more extensive ecclesiastical complexes in Ireland. The full collection was described and catalogued by J. Higgins in a 2007 publication arising from excavations carried out by T. Fanning and M. Clyne.