Rather than a cross, an inscription, or a coat of arms, its face carries the outline of a skeleton, rendered, according to the scholar Buggy writing in 1969, with a perfectly inscribed precision that makes it all the more arresting for its modest scale.

The stone is described as a cadaver stone, a category of medieval and early modern memorial that depicted the deceased not as they were in life but as a decomposing corpse or skeleton, a deliberate confrontation with mortality that was once more common across Ireland and Britain than surviving examples might suggest. This particular piece is small, roughly oblong, and measures approximately 0.63 metres in length, though the recorded width of around 0.02 metres is almost certainly a typographical error in the original source, with something closer to 0.3 metres being the likely reality. What it belonged to is not entirely certain. It may have formed part of a flat graveslab, or it could originally have been a panel from an altar tomb, the kind of free-standing chest tomb in which decorated side and front panels often featured figures of saints, weepers, or, in rarer cases, the cadaver motif. Either origin would place it within a tradition of funerary craftsmanship that treated the grave not as a place of simple commemoration but as a reminder of what awaits.