Its lower section is broken away, and with it, the bottom of the cross that was once incised across its face. What remains measures just over a metre in height and less than half a metre wide, a fragment of something that was already modest in ambition, yet precise in execution.

The slab was recorded by the antiquarian R.A.S. Macalister in 1916 to 1917, who catalogued it as number 37 in his survey of Inis Cealtra, the island better known in anglicised form as Inishcaltra. Macalister dated its style to the twelfth century and noted its close similarity to a neighbouring slab, his number 36, which carries a plain Latin cross rendered in two incised lines. A cross-slab is exactly what the name suggests: a flat stone, usually upright, bearing a carved cross, and they appear across early medieval Ireland in considerable variety, from elaborate ringed examples to the plainest of incised marks. This one sits close to Teampul na bhFear nGonta, a church whose name translates roughly as the Church of the Wounded Men, a detail that only adds to the quietly unsettling atmosphere of the graveyard it overlooks. The precise positioning recorded for the slab, 18.9 metres from the south wall and 10.6 metres from the west wall, speaks to the care that has gone into documenting a stone that might otherwise be walked past without a second glance.