The top of an effigial slab, a grave cover carved in the likeness of the person interred beneath it, has recently re-emerged at Carrickbeg after being exposed during a graveyard cleanup. It sits with its upper edge just breaking the surface of the ground, pressed against the inner face of the graveyard wall, most of it still buried. The figure carved upon it is thought to be a woman, though the slab's long submersion means the details are not easily read.

The slab's history can be traced back at least to 1781, when the antiquarian draughtsman Austin Cooper recorded it in a drawing, captioning it as coming from "An Old Tomb in the Abbey of Carrick-beg." That abbey was a Franciscan friary, a community of friars minor who would have maintained the church and its burial ground over the medieval period. When the friary eventually fell into decay, its fabric was not entirely lost. In 1827 the Roman Catholic church of St Molleran was built on the site, incorporating the surviving remains of the earlier structure. The effigy slab, presumably displaced or covered during these transitions, disappeared from view for a considerable time. John Hunt, writing in 1974, still listed it as a known object, drawing on Cooper's eighteenth-century illustration, but the physical stone itself had long since become invisible. Its reappearance during recent graveyard maintenance is a reminder of how much medieval material remains interred just below the surface of living churchyards.

The slab can now be seen, at least in part, at the graveyard of St Molleran's church in Carrickbeg. Only the top edge is visible above ground, so what a visitor encounters is modest rather than dramatic, but knowing what lies beneath gives the protruding stone a different weight entirely.