It is a graveslab, tapering from 0.85 metres wide at the top to 0.60 metres at the base, and just eight centimetres thick; the kind of modest, precise object that tends to be walked past rather than examined. What makes it worth stopping for is the carving across its face: a seven-armed segmental fleur-de-lis cross rendered in relief, with a three-barred knop, a small decorative boss, appearing both at the base of the cross-head and at the base of the shaft, which itself rests on a stepped plinth.

Running along both sides of the slab, in the angular letterforms of Black Letter script, is a Latin inscription that names the man commemorated beneath it. Transcribed and studied by FitzGerald in the early twentieth century and later translated by Maher, the text reads: "Here lies Daniel Jacobs, skilled lawyer and burgess of Cashel, who died in the month of March, A.D. 1588." The original Latin renders his name as Danielus Juccoighe, an Anglicised form sitting uneasily alongside the classical phrasing of "juris peritus," meaning one learned in the law. Jacobs was a burgess, a full citizen with formal rights and responsibilities within the town of Cashel, and apparently a man of sufficient local standing to merit burial in the cathedral choir and a carefully carved stone to mark it. The year 1588 places him in the late Tudor period, when the administrative and legal life of Munster's towns was being reorganised under Elizabethan rule, and Cashel retained its identity as a significant ecclesiastical and civic centre.