Roughly a metre tall and not much wider than a person's outstretched hand, its south-western face carries an incised Greek cross enclosed within two concentric circles, the arms formed of triple lines that terminate with careful precision at each ring. It is the kind of object that rewards close looking: the geometry is deliberate, the carving controlled, and yet the slab itself is fragile enough that a section above the circles has already flaked away. Beside it at the base sits a bullaun stone, a rounded boulder with one or more cup-shaped hollows ground into it, a form associated with early Christian and prehistoric sacred sites across Ireland.

Neither the 1842 nor the 1904 Ordnance Survey six-inch maps record the slab, which is itself a small puzzle, since the site lies to the south-east of what may be an early ecclesiastical enclosure. That possible enclosure suggests a long history of religious use in the immediate landscape, and the cross-slab's style is consistent with early medieval stone carving. The local tradition recorded by Hartnett in 1939 adds a more recent and darker layer: the stone is said to mark the grave of a priest killed during the Penal times, the period from the late seventeenth into the eighteenth century when Catholic worship and clergy were subject to severe legal suppression. Whether the slab was already ancient when that burial supposedly took place, or whether the two histories have simply accumulated around the same stone over time, is not recorded. The combination of carved slab, bullaun stone, and possible enclosure in a single small field is the kind of clustering that tends to point towards a site with a much longer memory than any single tradition can account for.