It has been catalogued, drawn, described, and moved at least once, possibly twice, and yet by 1976 it had simply vanished from the place where it was supposed to be kept. A wayside cross, typically a freestanding stone marker erected along roads or at boundaries to invite prayer or mark sacred ground, this one was modest even by the standards of the type: the head measured just under two feet across the arms and barely five inches thick, with a solid ring connecting the arms rather than the open-ring form more familiar from the great high crosses of Irish monasteries.

The cross was drawn in the nineteenth century by George Du Noyer, an artist and geologist who documented many antiquities across Ireland during that period. By 1928, when the scholar Crawford catalogued it as cross number fifteen in his survey, it was described as residing in St. Fechin's Church in Fore, having been moved there from the graveyard at St. Mary's Church nearby. Fore itself is well known for its cluster of early medieval remains associated with St. Fechin, who founded a monastery there in the seventh century. When researchers checked St. Fechin's Church in 1976, however, the cross was no longer among the stones kept in the chancel. One suggestion, noted without firm conclusion, is that the cross originally stood in the townland of Clonageeragh, where a base identified as belonging to it still survives in the ground, a stone socket waiting for an upright that may never return.