Where a substantial wall monument once stood commemorating the Gore family, only a nineteenth-century plaque and the faint outline of the former structure now remain. The monument itself disintegrated over time, and after the family gave their permission, the visible remains were carefully removed and reinterred. What survives is essentially a ghost, the trace of something that was once considered important enough to occupy a prominent position in one of Clare's most significant medieval buildings.

Ennis Friary, a Franciscan foundation, accumulated layers of burial and commemoration across the centuries, and the Gore monument was among those that marked the transept walls. A wall monument of this kind would typically have been a carved stone tablet or architectural surround, sometimes incorporating heraldic imagery or an inscription, set into or against the wall to mark a family's claim to a burial space nearby. The floor level in this part of the transept was once considerably higher than it is today, which means the monument would have sat in a quite different spatial relationship to its surroundings than the surviving plaque now does. The antiquarian Thomas Johnson Westropp recorded the location on a plan published in 1895, noting the family name and the date 'from 1694', placing the Gore family's association with this spot firmly in the late seventeenth century.

The friary is accessible in Ennis town, and the south transept is visible within the maintained ruins. The outline of the former monument on the wall is easy to miss without knowing to look for it, but once located, it offers an unexpectedly direct encounter with the way commemoration itself can erode, leaving only the shape of what was once there.