That uncertainty is itself part of what makes it worth knowing about. The cross was never a grand monument; even when whole, it would have measured only about forty centimetres across the arms, a thin slab of stone rough-shaped into a cruciform, the kind of object easy to overlook and easier still to lose.

The scholar Françoise Henry recorded it in 1951, noting its position at the foot of the Bailey Mór on the south side. Her published photograph shows a fragile thing: one arm almost entirely gone, the other barely projecting from the shaft. Henry was working on Inishkea North at a time when the island's early Christian remains were beginning to attract serious scholarly attention, and this cross appeared among a group of monuments she described as new to the record. The Bailey Mór mound with which it is associated is a separate monument in its own right, and the cross seems to have sat quietly at its base, small enough that it could have been moved, buried, or simply absorbed back into the ground without anyone noticing. When the area was inspected in 2022, the cross could not be found.

Inishkea North is an uninhabited island, and reaching it requires planning and suitable conditions. The cross, if it survives, would be near the southern face of the Bailey Mór mound. Given that it went unlocated as recently as 2022, anyone hoping to find it should approach the search with low expectations and genuine curiosity rather than any assumption of success. Its absence from view is, at this point, as much a part of its story as Henry's photograph.