It is tapered, the shape of a coffin lid, which is exactly what it once was. Possibly dating to the thirteenth century, it has spent enough centuries exposed to the elements that its surface is now heavily worn, and yet the carving has not entirely surrendered. Running the full length of the stone, carved in low relief, is the outline of a cross whose shaft appears to end in a trefoil, the three-lobed form familiar from medieval decorative work. The top left corner is missing, but the slab is otherwise intact, which, given its probable age, is itself something.

The friary at Strade was a Dominican foundation, and this slab is one of a group of five gathered together in the chancel. Two of the others preserve a more complete version of what this stone likely once showed: a large bottonée or foliated cross, the arms of which terminate in rounded, flower-like lobes, a design common to high-status medieval grave markers. The worn surface of this particular slab makes a precise reading difficult, but the shared tapered form and the surviving geometry of the cross suggest it belonged to the same tradition of monument-making as its neighbours. Coffin-tombs of this kind, where a shaped stone lid served as both the seal of a burial and a surface for carved commemoration, were a mark of some standing in medieval Irish religious communities.