It is modest in scale, rising only 37 centimetres above ground and tapering slightly from base to top, but the carvings cut into its face reward a closer look. This is an Early Christian cross-slab, a category of early medieval stone monument common across Ireland, in which a cross is incised directly into the surface of a flat stone rather than cut in relief or fashioned into a free-standing form.

The cross here is unusual in its proportions and its detailing. The horizontal arms are longer than the vertical, which inverts the more familiar arrangement, and each arm ends differently. The upper vertical arm terminates in a perpendicular bar, while the remaining arms splay into simple expanded ends described as almost thumb-shaped. Below the crossing point, a short incised vertical line descends with its own thumb-shaped terminal at the base. More intriguing still are two angled lines near the top of the slab that rise from either edge towards the centre but stop just short of meeting, as if the carver left them deliberately incomplete, or as if they indicate something whose meaning has since been lost. The decorated face is oriented to the north-east, and the Ara River runs to the north of the graveyard before turning south-east, placing the stone in a modest but anciently settled river landscape.