He is not where he started. The rectangular slab, bearing a low-relief effigy of an unidentified bishop, was formerly set upright in the chancel of Kilfenora cathedral and has since been moved to rest recumbent near the west wall of the porch of the Church of Ireland church that now occupies the cathedral nave. That kind of displacement is common enough with medieval stonework, but it does something strange to the object: a figure designed to be read vertically, as a formal statement of ecclesiastical authority, is now horizontal, closer to a doorstep than an altarpiece.

The carving dates, in the estimation of the art historian John Hunt writing in 1974, to probably the first half of the fourteenth century. Hunt's description is candid about the piece's uneven quality. The bishop is set within a cusped niche, the decorative arched recess framing the figure, supported by slim columns from which angels spread their wings on either side. The vestments are rendered with some ambition: the amice, the liturgical collar visible at the neck, is described as high and stiff; the chasuble, the outermost ceremonial garment, is treated as a flat, pointed panel of rigid angular folds. Hunt notes that the head and hands show a degree of skill, though not an assured one, and that the overall composition has a haphazard, clumsy quality, as though the various elements, head, limbs, hands, have been assembled around the rectangle of the body without quite cohering. It is, in other words, the work of a craftsman doing something difficult and not entirely pulling it off, which makes it considerably more interesting than a polished commission would be.

Kilfenora cathedral itself is a site of considerable medieval complexity, and the porch where the effigy now lies is easily accessible to visitors. The slab is close to the west wall and worth examining slowly; the detail of the crozier's volute and the ring on the blessing hand repay a close look, and Hunt's observation about the awkwardness of the composition becomes much easier to understand once you are standing over it.