The stone commemorates one B. Abel Swined, who died on an unspecified day in February 1684, and its carved lettering reads: "E LIETH THE BODY OF B ABEL SWINED WHO DECEASD Y DAY OF FEBRVARY 1684". The opening characters suggest the original inscription began with "HER", the first letter lost or damaged, and the spelling throughout, with its contracted "Y" for "the" and the phonetic "DECEASD", is entirely typical of late seventeenth-century memorial carving in Ireland and Britain. What makes it linger is the name itself, Swined, which is uncommon enough to feel like a fragment of a family that left almost no other trace.

The stone was noted as the memorial of "Ao Swined 1684" in the Urban Survey conducted by Bradley and King in 1989, which places its formal documentation relatively late given the stone's age. Glebe, as a placename, typically denotes land historically set aside for the support of a Church of Ireland clergyman, and a burial marker of this period in such a location would be consistent with a small parish graveyard or the curtilage of a glebe house. The date 1684 falls within the reign of Charles II, a period of relative consolidation for Protestant settlement in Wicklow, and the use of a formal inscribed headstone at that time suggests a family of some local standing, even if the Swined name itself has faded from the historical record.