Measuring just over a metre in length and seventeen centimetres wide, it carries a small circular hollow at one end, the kind of detail that suggests it was once a sill or jamb stone, the dressed stonework that frames a window or doorway opening. Removed from its original setting and propped against rubble, it is the kind of object that could easily be walked past without a second thought.

The stone almost certainly came from a rectangular church that once stood roughly at the centre of this graveyard on the brow of a south-facing slope. The church was clearly visible on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1839, which mapped Ireland in remarkable detail during that decade, recording buildings and field boundaries that in many cases no longer exist. By the time the site was examined in the 1990s, the church had been reduced largely to rubble and overgrown vegetation. Only the western end of the northern wall remained discernible as collapsed masonry, while the southern wall and both gables had disappeared entirely. The loose masonry gathered at the northern end of the graveyard, including this sandstone fragment, appears to have been collected and set aside rather than left scattered, suggesting someone at some point made a modest effort to consolidate what remained.