It is a cross-slab, a category of early medieval monument in which a cross is incised directly onto a flat stone rather than cut in relief or worked into a free-standing sculpture. What makes this particular example quietly arresting is the precision of its damage: the upper portion has broken away in a clean, almost horizontal line directly above the arms of the cross, leaving the ring incomplete and the top of the shaft entirely absent. What survives is a torso of a design that was once whole.

The carving itself is methodical and restrained. On the west face of the slab, a ringed cross is outlined by two parallel incised grooves running closely together, with the arms of the cross extending outward to meet an inner rectangular frame, which is itself defined by another pair of close-set grooves running around the edge of the stone. The two surviving lower arcs of the ring form a semicircle roughly 0.34 metres in external diameter, but they do not interrupt the shaft or arms of the cross, leaving those lines continuous. Below the arms, around 0.4 metres of the shaft remains visible above ground, though its base disappears beneath the surface. The slab is 0.6 metres wide and just 0.06 metres thick, making it a relatively slender piece of stone to have survived at all. The southern edge has also taken damage, cutting into part of the incised frame.

The graveyard holds a second cross-slab as well, though that one has ended up serving a rather different purpose. It was reused at some point as a lintel in the lower doorway of the round tower that stands in the south-western part of the enclosure. Round towers, the tall tapering stone structures associated with early Irish monastic sites, were built from roughly the ninth century onwards, and the practice of incorporating older carved stones into later construction was not uncommon as sites were modified over centuries. The two slabs together suggest this was once a place of some significance, even if the broken stone in the northern half of the graveyard now stands without explanation or fanfare.