When researchers went looking for them in October 2018, the fragments could not be found. Whether they had been moved, stored out of sight, or lost entirely was unclear. What remains on record is the knowledge that they once existed, and that a third piece, depicting St Dominic himself, was stolen from the church at some point and has not been recovered.

Bradley and Dunne, writing in 1992, documented all three fragments as belonging to the decorative panel of a single late-fifteenth or early-sixteenth-century tomb. Wall monuments and tomb panels of this period were typically carved in relief, often set into the interior walls of a church, and decorated with figures of saints, ecclesiastics, or angels arranged in a formal, devotional composition. The two fragments that had been in the church each carried a single figure: one an ecclesiastic, the other an angel. The lost third fragment, showing St Dominic, the founder of the Dominican order, would have completed what appears to have been a theologically considered grouping. That such carvings survive at all from this period is partly a matter of chance; that one piece was taken and the others have since become unlocatable suggests the usual combination of neglect, dislocation, and opportunism that accounts for so many gaps in the material record of medieval Irish churches.