The upper portion of a rectangular graveslab, measuring roughly 0.87 metres long and 0.82 metres wide, it carries a seven-armed segmental fleur-de-lis cross carved in relief, a decorative form in which the arms terminate in the stylised lily shapes more commonly associated with heraldry. At the base of the cross-head, where it meets the shaft, sits a knop, a small rounded protrusion used as a kind of visual joint or terminal. Running along the left and right edges of the slab is a Latin inscription in Black Letter script, the angular, compressed lettering typical of medieval stonework and manuscripts. Of that inscription, only the phrase HIC JACET survives with any clarity, meaning "here lies", followed by a few damaged letters that resolve into nothing legible.

The crack running down one side has not helped, but weather had already done considerable damage long before any modern record was made. Writing in the early twentieth century, FitzGerald described what appears to be this same slab as the upper half of an eight-armed cross slab whose inscription was already too worn to read, which suggests the discrepancy in arm count between that account and later observation may itself reflect erosion and reinterpretation over time. The slab sits in a cathedral that formed part of one of the most significant ecclesiastical complexes in medieval Ireland, though the individual whose name once ran along its edges remains entirely unknown. Whoever they were, they commissioned a piece of accomplished stonework, and the carver's skill is still visible in the crisp relief of the cross arms, even as the words that were meant to outlast the body beneath have not.