The memorial, which stands just four metres north of the porch of Tawnagh church, is small, almost apologetically so: a little over half a metre tall and roughly sixty centimetres wide, set upright now in a concrete base, its face oriented east. What gives it its quiet weight is not its size but its record. Four members of the Folliott family are inscribed here, the earliest entry dated 1701, and reading the stone is something close to reading a household's grief in instalments.

The inscription begins with Robert Folliott, recorded simply as having died an infant in 1701. That same year, Katerin Folliott, identified as a daughter of Mary, died on the 12th of November, described as a maid, meaning an unmarried woman. Mary Folliott herself does not appear until 1719, when she died aged seventy-five, on the 4th of August. The last entry belongs to Barbara Folliott, another daughter of Mary, who died unmarried on the 10th of April 1723. The stone, then, was not cut all at once; it accumulated. Someone, at some point before or around 1723, gathered these deaths together onto a single face, or the stone was added to over time. The Folliotts were a family of planter stock with connections across the north-west of Ireland, and a gravestone bearing multiple entries across more than twenty years speaks to a household that maintained enough continuity, and enough means, to mark its dead in carved stone during a period when such memorials were far from universal in rural Ireland. The stone is discussed in M. B. Timoney's 2005 study of Sligo grave memorials, which traces the tradition of commemorative stonecutting in the county from around 1650 onwards.

The stone sits in Tawnagh graveyard, close to the church, and the inscription is on its east face, which is the side most likely to catch morning light. Given its modest dimensions and the concrete setting at its base, it could easily be passed without a second glance; knowing to look for it just north of the church porch is most of the work.