The crosses are modest things, cut to a depth of just seven millimetres on one side and even shallower on the other, with squared hollows worked into the angles where the arms meet. That detail, the double squared hollows, lifts this fragment out of the ordinary and into something more deliberate and considered, the work of someone who understood a visual grammar of early Christian stonework.

The slab sits within St. Berrihert's Kyle, an ecclesiastical enclosure at Ardane in the Glen of Aherlow. A kyle, in this context, refers to a type of sacred enclosure associated with an early Irish saint, and this one is dedicated to St. Berrihert, an obscure figure whose cult left its mark in this remote Tipperary valley. The site contains a collection of early medieval cross-slabs and carved stones gathered within an oval enclosure of dry stone walling, stepped on the interior, which was built by the Office of Public Works in 1946. The construction of that enclosure was a conservation measure, intended to protect and display the slabs, though it means the stones are now presented within a relatively modern frame. The cross-slab catalogued by the scholar Ó hÉailidhe as 9A/9B is positioned on top of the wall itself, rather than standing within the interior. At roughly 43 centimetres long and 19 centimetres wide, it is easy to overlook, especially given how many carved stones compete for attention at this site.