The reassembled section stands 1.39 metres tall and preserves two details that reward close attention: a figure on horseback carved into the stone, and interlaced knotwork that is thought to represent what was once the ring of a high cross. That ring, the distinctive halo of stone that connects the arms of an Irish high cross, is now gone, but its ghost survives in the decoration.

High crosses are among the most recognisable products of early medieval Irish monasticism, typically carved from a single stone and combining scriptural scenes, abstract ornament, and sometimes figures of abbots or patrons. This one, however, is scattered. The scholar Françoise Henry, writing in 1970, proposed that the three fragments inside Teaghlach Éinne and two further fragments found near the village of Cill Éinne were originally all part of the same cross. If Henry's reading is correct, the cross was dismembered at some point and its pieces drifted apart, some ending up built into or propped against the fabric of the old ecclesiastical enclosure, others lying elsewhere in the village. Teaghlach Éinne, whose name roughly translates as the household or family of Enda, is associated with Saint Enda, the sixth-century monk credited with establishing one of the earliest and most influential monasteries in Ireland on Inis Mór. The fragments, wherever they ended up, almost certainly belong to that monastic landscape.

The surviving shaft section, modest in its dimensions at just under half a metre wide and 23 centimetres thick, gives little sense of how large the original cross might have been. But the horseback figure is an unusual detail, and scholars of Insular stone carving have long been interested in equestrian imagery as a marker of status or, in some readings, a reference to specific biblical or hagiographic narratives. Whether the rider here was a saint, a patron, or something else entirely, the notes do not say.