By 1840 it was propped outside against the south wall of the church; today it is set into a pier on the internal face of the north wall of the medieval tower, partially obscured and no longer fully visible to the casual eye. The panel belongs to a chest tomb, a free-standing rectangular tomb type common in late medieval Irish ecclesiastical settings, and what survives of its carved face offers a compressed piece of devotional imagery that repays close attention.

The panel, though incomplete, depicts the Virgin enthroned with the Christ Child on her knee, the Child holding an orb surmounted by a cross in his left hand. The Virgin sits within an ogee-headed niche, a pointed arch with a gentle double curve characteristic of late medieval Gothic stonework, its spandrels filled with foliate carving. A pillar separates her from a second figure in a matching niche, of which only the left half now survives. That surviving fragment shows a man carrying a book, with a lamb carved upon it, an attribute that scholars have read as identifying him as St John the Evangelist, whose symbol in Christian iconography is the eagle but who is also associated with the Lamb of God. John Hunt, writing in 1974, accepted this identification. Above the figures, according to a nineteenth-century description by O'Keeffe recorded in the Ordnance Survey letters, there was an inscription in black letter script. Portions remain legible in transcription: the contracted letters "sbpt1" appear above St John, and above the Virgin the opening of the Ave Maria, "Aue Maria g - -", interpreted as Ave Maria gratia plena, the opening of the Hail Mary. Whether the inscription is still visible behind the masonry into which the panel is now set is unclear; the stonework has effectively swallowed part of its own record.