It is easy to overlook, and that is precisely what makes it worth looking at. Somewhere between 2.40 metres tall and 1.60 metres wide, it is large enough to have once been a commanding presence in the church interior, the kind of monument that would have announced a family's wealth and piety to every congregation assembled beneath it. What remains now is a partial architectural composition: an apron, which is the lower decorative panel of such a monument, a central panel above it, a frieze, and the outline of a triangular pediment at the top. Plaster memorials of this type were common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when carved stone was expensive and skilled plasterers could achieve comparable grandeur at lower cost.

St Audeon's is the oldest surviving medieval parish church in Dublin, and its nave has accumulated layers of commemoration over many centuries. The wall memorial dates to somewhere in the period spanning the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a broad bracket that reflects how difficult it is to date plaster work precisely once the identifying inscriptions or heraldic details have been lost to damage. Without those elements, the individuals being commemorated cannot now be named. The monument was recorded and compiled by Geraldine Stout, with notes uploaded in August 2012, as part of ongoing efforts to document the surviving fabric of Irish ecclesiastical buildings. The loss of so much of the memorial's surface means the record itself becomes a kind of monument, preserving at least the fact that something was once here, carefully made and intended to last.

St Audeon's sits on High Street, close to the old city walls, and is accessible to visitors. The church operates as both an active place of worship and a heritage site, with the nave open to the public at certain times. The north wall, where the memorial survives, is worth approaching slowly and in good light, since the damaged plaster can be hard to read at a glance. The architectural elements that remain, particularly the pediment's outline, give a sense of the monument's original ambition, even in its current condition. Visiting outside of peak tourist periods tends to allow for a quieter look at details that are otherwise easy to pass without pausing.