It is a Latin cross, the form with the longer descending shaft that became the standard shape of Christian iconography, and it has been carved from a single piece of local sandstone. Modest in scale, the shaft measures roughly twenty centimetres wide and ten centimetres deep, with arms extending only about five centimetres on each side. At around one and a half metres tall, it is not a towering monument but a quiet, almost understated one.

The cross sits within what remains of an early ecclesiastical enclosure at Caheravart, the kind of roughly circular or oval boundary that typically marks an early Irish monastic or church site, often predating the arrival of the Romanesque and Gothic building traditions that later came to dominate Irish religious architecture. These enclosures frequently survived as earthworks, field boundaries, or place-name traces long after any associated buildings had vanished. The burial ground itself occupies part of this older sacred space, and the cross, oriented along a north-east to south-west axis, belongs to a tradition of carved stone markers that can be found scattered across early Christian sites throughout Munster.