The blank space left at its base, apparently intended for an inscription that was never cut, gives the stone an air of interrupted purpose, as though the carver downed tools and never returned. It is a small thing, roughly 43 centimetres tall and 27 centimetres wide, yet what it carries in low relief is anything but modest.

When the antiquarian Seymour visited in 1907, he found the stone standing close to the Barry wall monument and took careful note of what was on it. A winged figure stands on a pedestal, blowing a trumpet held in its left hand, while the right hand grasps a set of scales. The imagery is drawn from Christian funerary tradition, where the angel of judgement sounds the last trump and weighs souls, and it would not have been unusual iconography for a 17th-century Irish gravestone. What gives this particular example its odd character is the combination of that weighty theological symbolism with the surrounding decorative foliage, all rendered in shallow relief on a stone barely the size of a large book, and then left without a name. The stone is catalogued as a possible 17th-century monument, though no date has been confirmed.

The difficulty for anyone wishing to seek it out is that its precise location within the graveyard can no longer be identified with confidence. Seymour's description places it near the Barry wall monument, which gives a rough orientation, but over a century has passed since he wrote, and graveyards shift, stones move or sink. Abbey Owney itself is the site of a medieval Cistercian abbey, and the graveyard retains a number of other carved stones and monuments worth attention. A slow and methodical circuit of the older sections, keeping an eye low to the ground for small upright slabs with rounded tops, is probably the most practical approach. The stone may turn up, or it may not; that uncertainty is part of what makes looking for it worthwhile.