It is an unassuming thing by most measures, but on the eleventh of February each year people still come here to perform the rounds, the traditional circuit of prayer made at each monument in sequence, just as they have done for generations.

The cross belongs to a wider complex of early Christian remains known as Kilgobnet, or Cill Ghobnait, named for St. Gobnait, whose feast day falls on that February date. As described by Cuppage in 1986, the site includes a sub-circular enclosure containing two large penitential cairns, which are accumulations of stones built up through repeated acts of devotion, and the traces of what may be early house foundations along the western side of a larger surrounding enclosure. About a hundred metres to the west of the stone cross lies Tobar Ghobnait, a holy well, the kind of water source that in Irish tradition carries curative or sacred associations and frequently forms part of a pattern, the local term for a defined pilgrimage route performed on a saint's feast day. Here, the rounds take in the enclosure, the cross, and the well in sequence.

The cross itself sits roughly a hundred metres southwest of the main enclosure, set against the rock face rather than in open ground, which gives it a slightly sheltered, almost incidental quality. February in this part of the Dingle Peninsula is raw and frequently wet, and the site's proximity to the sea cliffs means the wind can be considerable. Those visiting outside the feast day will find the monuments quiet and unattended, the cairns built up over many years of accumulated small stones left by those completing the rounds.