Yet the quiet complexity of the carving rewards a close look: rounded hollows sit in the angles of the cross, the bottom corners of the slab are left proud in low relief, and a second, smaller cross appears on the top edge. The back of the slab remains inaccessible, pressed against the stonework around it.

The slab, catalogued as number 26 by scholar Pádraig Ó hÉailidhe, sits within a site known as St. Berrihert's Kyle, an ecclesiastical enclosure in the Glen of Aherlow associated with the early Irish saint Berrihert. The word "kyle" derives from the Irish "coill", meaning a wood or secluded place, and these small sacred enclosures are a distinctive feature of early Christian landscape in Munster. The oval stone enclosure in which the slab now rests was built by the Office of Public Works in 1946, a mid-twentieth-century effort to gather and protect what had become a remarkable collection of early carved slabs surviving at the site. The slab itself is sandstone, measuring roughly 23 centimetres by 19 centimetres, with a thickness of just 6 centimetres, placing it among the smaller examples of a carving tradition that flourished across Ireland in the early medieval period, when incised and relief-carved cross-slabs marked sacred ground, graves, or boundaries within monastic communities.