The fragment was found in 1989 lying loose on the ground of the ancient graveyard.

The stone demonstrates one of the few examples in Ulster of the Irish Urnes style. Bourke notes the similarity between this fragment and the ornament of the sarcophagus at Cormac's chapel, Cashel, which stands apart from most examples of Irish Urnes in its rounded profile, and the looseness of the looping. Despite its fragmentary and diminutive nature the stone has important implications for the study of regionalism in Hiberno-Romanesque.