The upper shaft, one surviving arm, and the lower shaft are held there together, a plain rectangular cross reassembled in pieces but still conspicuously incomplete. A large rectangular mortise, the socket cut to receive a second arm, gapes empty on one side, and a small tenon at the top of the cross once accepted some form of cap that has also long since disappeared.

The cross is a plain, undecorated form, without the elaborate knotwork or figural carving associated with the more celebrated high crosses of early medieval Ireland. Its rectangular profile and the way its components were designed to interlock suggest careful, considered craftsmanship, even if the decoration was never the point. The measurements recorded for each fragment are precise enough to reconstruct the rough scale of the original object: an arm extending to just over half a metre, a lower shaft approaching sixty centimetres in height. Waddell and Holland, writing in 1990, documented the cross in its present fragmented condition, by which point it had presumably been in this state for some considerable time. The monastery at Toureen Peacaun is a site with early medieval origins, and the cross, however battered, belongs to that long history of small ecclesiastical settlements scattered across the Tipperary landscape, where carved stone often outlasted every other record of a community's existence.