It is not a dramatic monument by any conventional measure: just under one and a half metres tall, less than ten centimetres thick, and the crosses themselves are modest incisions cut to a depth of roughly ten millimetres. What makes it quietly arresting is the combination of its setting and its purpose. Someone, at some point, chose this exposed and remote place to inscribe a double-faced cross pillar, and left it there.

The pillar measures 1.38 metres in height and 0.46 metres in width. The cross on the west face is slightly more legible than the one on the east, measuring 13 by 25 centimetres compared to 16 by 9 centimetres on the eastern side. Both are incised in the same simple Latin cross form, without any elaboration. Cross-inscribed pillars of this type are associated broadly with early medieval Christianity in Ireland, when carved stone markers were used to sanctify landscape, define boundaries, or mark routes used by pilgrims and monks. Whether this one served a devotional, territorial, or waymarking function is not recorded. The mica-schist itself is a metamorphic rock common to the Wicklow uplands, which would have been available locally, though working it into a thin, upright slab and carrying it to this clifftop location was no minor undertaking.