Look closer, and two deep notches cut into its upper edges give it an oddly deliberate quality, as though it was shaped for a purpose beyond simply marking a burial. What that purpose was is no longer clear, and the mystery is compounded by the slab's own displacement from wherever it first stood.

The slab was originally located in the old graveyard at Burgage, before being moved to the new graveyard where it was set into concrete at the head of a grave, effectively pressing it into secondary service as a headstone. Recorded by Paddy Healy in 2009, it measures 1.11 metres in height, 0.34 metres in width, and just 0.09 metres thick, a notably slender piece of local slate. The two notches cut near the top edge are the feature that resists easy explanation. Such notches occasionally appear on early graveslabs and architectural fragments in Ireland, sometimes interpreted as functional fittings, sometimes as markers of a ritual or boundary purpose, though no specific meaning has been established for this particular stone. Its relocation from the old graveyard means that whatever original context might have helped interpret it has been lost.