Cut in incised Roman capitals and composed in Latin, it commemorates Eugene Considine and manages, within a single inscription, to reference Cromwellian destruction, Jacobite restoration, the obligations of the living to pray for the dead, and the reader's own mortality. The final line, "mortisque memento", a reminder to remember death, gives the whole thing an edge that a conventional memorial rarely bothers with.

The tablet dates to 1686, though the story it tells reaches back further. According to the inscription, an earlier Considine monument at the friary was destroyed during the Cromwellian wars of the mid-seventeenth century, when Ennis and its Franciscan house suffered considerable damage. After the upheaval, a younger Eugene Considine had the memorial rebuilt under the reign of King James II, a monarch the text calls "pious" in a turn of phrase that would have carried pointed meaning for a Catholic family in Clare at that particular moment. The Considines were, by the inscription's own account, a family of some standing, described as "celebrated stock" of that name. The tablet was originally set into the interior of the south wall of the nave, a mural tablet being a flat monument fixed directly to a wall rather than set as a freestanding grave marker. At some point in the twentieth century it was relocated to the exterior of the same wall, housed within a porch added during that period, which is where it can be found today.