" That closing line alone sets this memorial apart from the usual pieties of Counter-Reformation funerary carving. The stone commemorates Anastasia Verdon, who died on the 18th of December 1597, though the monument itself was erected in 1632, some thirty-five years after her death.

The slab was recorded in the Urban Survey of County Limerick (Bradley et al., 1989) and bears a heraldic device described in the blazon as "or a fret gules", meaning a gold background crossed by an interlaced diagonal pattern in red, which was the arms associated with the Verdon family. The surrounding inscription names her father as Georgius Verdon, described as a noble hero and former consul of Kilmallock, the term consul here referring to a civic office in the town rather than a diplomatic post. The monument was commissioned and erected by Jacobus Verdonus, identified as the son and heir of both Anastasia and Georgius. The Latin phrasing MATRONAE RELIGIOSISSIMAE, meaning "most devout matron", signals the religious tenor with which the family wished her to be remembered. Kilmallock itself was at this period one of the more significant walled towns in Munster, and families like the Verdons occupied roles within its civic and mercantile life.

The stone was noted in the Memorials of the Dead journal between 1901 and 1903, which systematically recorded inscribed monuments across Ireland at a time when many were already deteriorating or being displaced. Anyone visiting Kilmallock to seek it out would do well to consult the local heritage resources in the town, as the precise current location of the slab is not detailed in the survey record. Kilmallock's surviving medieval fabric, including its Dominican friary and town walls, provides useful context for understanding the kind of community in which the Verdons moved, and the churchyard and friary remains are natural places to look for monuments of this type and period.