The forename of whoever lies beneath has been lost, worn away or never fully cut, leaving behind a name that identifies a family but not a person.

The tomb is dated to around 1600 by stylistic analysis rather than by any legible inscription, placing it at a moment when the chest tomb form was well established in the Anglo-Irish tradition of commemorative stonework. The Strong family were evidently of sufficient local standing to warrant a monument of this type, which in the late sixteenth century would have been a mark of some social consequence. Beyond the surname and the approximate date, the individual commemorated remains anonymous, a common enough fate for monuments of this age, where the stone itself has outlasted the memory it was meant to preserve.