It tapers from roughly half a metre wide at the top to thirty centimetres at the base, and stretches to just over two metres in length. What makes it unusual is not its size alone but what remains carved on its surface: a male head rendered in bold relief, projecting outward from the stone with a presence that centuries of weathering have not entirely erased. Below the head, the ghost of a cross survives, also in relief, its shaft ending in a fleur-de-lis terminal, that is, a stylised three-lobed floral motif more commonly associated with heraldry than with funerary carving.

Head-slabs of this kind belong to a tradition of Irish medieval grave markers in which the deceased, or a symbolic representation of them, was incorporated directly into the design of the stone. The use of a figurative male head combined with a decorative cross terminal suggests a slab of some ambition, likely commissioned for a person of local standing. The fleur-de-lis as a cross terminal points broadly toward the medieval period, when such ornamental details appeared on ecclesiastical stonework and grave furniture across Leinster. The limestone itself, while well suited to carving when freshly quarried, becomes brittle with prolonged exposure, and the upper surface of this slab is now fragile enough that the finer details of the carving have largely crumbled away. The upper corners are also damaged, leaving the head as the most legible surviving feature.

The slab sits within the same enclosure as the remains of the medieval church it once served, in the east portion of the graveyard as the site is traditionally laid out, that area being the most consecrated ground and therefore the preferred location for significant burials. Visitors approaching the site should expect a working graveyard around a roofless church ruin, and should look for the slab lying flat and partially embedded in the earth rather than standing upright. The erosion is considerable, and the carving rewards a close and patient look rather than a quick glance from a distance.