It stands only 39 centimetres high and 32 centimetres wide, with a neat square cross-section of 10 centimetres on each side. On one face, an incised cross with expanded terminals, meaning the arms flare slightly outward at their tips, has been cut directly into the stone. The whole thing is modest almost to the point of anonymity, which makes its presence here all the more interesting once you know it did not originate here at all.

The cross is thought to date from the 18th century, but it spent much of its existence at a different location entirely. Around 1900 it was moved to its present position from St. Brecaun's church, a separate ecclesiastical site in the same area of the Hook Peninsula. The relocation was noted by Colfer in 1978, and it is the kind of quiet displacement that leaves a small object slightly adrift from its original context, associated now with a church it was never made for, carrying the traces of one place while standing in another.