It measures less than three-quarters of a metre in length, and when R.A.S. Macalister recorded the graveyard in 1916 and 1917, he marked it on his plan as plain and left it unnumbered, apparently seeing nothing worth cataloguing. That assessment may have been premature, or the stone may simply have been more legible then than it appears now.

Sometime after Macalister's survey, the scholar Liam de Paor made a drawing of what he believed to be a carved wheeled cross on the slab's surface, with small crosses ornamenting one side of the shaft. A wheeled cross, sometimes called a ringed cross, is one of the most characteristic forms of early medieval Irish stone carving, where a circle connects the arms of the cross, a motif found across the island from roughly the seventh century onwards. The difficulty is that weathering has been severe enough that it is now uncertain whether de Paor's drawing captures this particular stone, an adjacent slab recorded separately, or possibly a third slab that may by now be entirely swallowed by vegetation. The carving, if it was ever clearly visible, has retreated to the threshold of legibility, leaving a small stone whose significance remains genuinely unresolved.