Catalogue number 56 in the scholarly record, it measures just 46 centimetres tall and a mere 5 centimetres thick, barely larger than a paperback book. Carved into its face is a single-line Latin cross, incised rather than raised, the simplest possible declaration of Christian devotion. Turn it over and the back is entirely blank.

St. Berrihert's Kyle is an early ecclesiastical enclosure, a site associated with the early Irish saint Berrihert, and the Kyle preserves a remarkable concentration of carved stones gathered here over time. The oval stone enclosure in which the slabs now sit, stepped on its interior, was constructed by the Office of Public Works in 1946, giving a tidy modern frame to an accumulation of material that is anything but modern. The small sandstone slab was described and numbered by Ó hÉailidhe in 1967, whose systematic study of the Kyle's stones remains the principal reference for individual pieces like this one. The choice of yellow sandstone, the restrained single-line carving, and the blank reverse all suggest a modest, functional object, the kind of marker that was probably never meant to impress, only to mark.