Designed in the Georgian style, St. Peter's starkly contrasts with the Neo-Gothic Roman Catholic church of the same name, located in the town centre.

[1] The church was established on the north side of the River Boyne also before 1186 and was given by Hugh de Lacy to the Augustinian canons of Llanthony Prima in Monmouthshire, Wales.

[citation needed][3] The new church, which replaced a larger Gothic building on the same site, was opened in 1753, and was designed by the Dublin-based architect, Hugh Darley.

Helen M. Roe in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1969 estimates that a date for the tomb would seem to fall within the first quarter of the 16th century.

[10] This type of tombstone is part of a fashion widespread in Europe, although relatively rare in Ireland, which explored bodily decomposition and human mortality.