What makes this particular stone unusual is not the monument itself, which is a fairly standard dressed limestone slab, rectangular with a rounded top and standing 1.78 metres tall, but its immediate neighbour: just two metres to the east, on the opposite side of the same grave structure, stands an ogham stone. Ogham is an early medieval script, typically carved as a series of notches and lines along the edge of a standing stone, and finding one in such close proximity to a comparatively recent Victorian memorial is a quietly arresting collision of eras.

The headstone was recorded in 1914 by the antiquarian T. J. Westropp, who noted that one of two tall pillars standing near the north wall of the church interior carried what he described as a long epitaph. That reference led to the stone being catalogued as an inscribed stone in both the 1991 and 1997 national monument records, though the inscription on its western face is understood to be a memorial text rather than anything of the antiquarian character that the designation might first suggest. The grave structure into which both the headstone and the ogham stone are built is itself a substantial piece of internal church architecture, spanning the full width of the building and giving the interior an unusual, compartmentalised feel.