That absence is itself the interesting detail. A mural monument, as such pieces are known, is a wall-mounted funerary tablet, typically carved in relief and set into the interior stonework of a church; this one commemorated John Power, Earl of Tyrone, who died on 14th October 1693 at the age of twenty-nine. Fashioned from white and black marble and bearing the Power coat-of-arms, it carried an inscription in the formal, phonetically faithful spelling of the late seventeenth century: "Here lyeth the Body of the Right Honble John Power Earle of Tyrone who died the 14th of October 1693 in the 29th yeare of his Age."

The church that housed it, dedicated to St. Nicholas of Myra, was a medieval structure on the west side of the town, north of Main Street. It appears to have survived in some form until around 1813, when it was demolished and replaced by a Protestant church, which today serves as a tourist office and heritage centre. The monument was recorded on the north wall of that church by FitzGerald in 1904, but at some point after that it was relocated entirely, crossing county boundaries to end up in the Church of Ireland church at Clonagam, near Portlaw in County Waterford. The reasons for the move are not recorded here, but such transfers were not unusual when church buildings changed hands, fell out of use, or were adapted for new purposes. The monument is now catalogued at its Waterford location, quietly commemorating a young Tipperary nobleman in a Waterford parish church, far from where it was first placed.