In 1903, Owen Lamb, a post-Famine immigrant from County Monaghan, died at the age of 66 in Etobicoke Township, west of the City of Toronto. He was buried at the Elmbank Roman Catholic Church cemetery some distance away from his residence at the time of his death. Elmbank, which served a largely Irish rural parish, was excavated in 2000-2001 in advance of expansion of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority’s Lester B. Pearson International Airport. Owen’s burial is one of the very few that deployed any symbols of Irish identity and it is a subtle and enigmatic one at that. Or perhaps the product of my imagination. Nevertheless, his coffin plate will be discussed in terms of its potential as a lens to explore questions of identity, life experience, and memory.