What survives is the lower portion of an effigial slab, roughly half a metre tall and just over sixty centimetres wide, incised with a pair of pointed feet and the hem of a long robe falling to the ankles. The rest of the figure is gone. There is no face, no hands, no inscription, no heraldic detail to anchor the person to a name or a family. Just feet, and the trailing edge of a garment.

An effigial slab is a flat grave marker carved with the outline or image of the deceased, common across medieval Europe and particularly widespread in Ireland from the thirteenth century onward. This example, set into the cathedral on the Rock of Cashel, is tentatively identified as male, based on the style of the robe. The dating, placed in the late thirteenth or fourteenth century by comparison with similar incised effigies elsewhere, places it in a period when Cashel was still an active ecclesiastical centre of considerable importance. The cathedral itself, a cruciform structure begun in the thirteenth century, was the seat of the archbishops of Cashel, and the choir where this fragment sits would have been a prestigious location for burial. Whoever this figure was, the choice of placement suggests rank, even if the stone no longer carries enough detail to confirm it.