It is not a simple outline: the design consists of arcs arranged within a circle, with a roughly triangular or wedge-shaped stem hanging beneath it, a form that places it within an early Christian tradition of incised rock art found across the west of Ireland.

The carving sits about 75 metres south of a calluragh burial ground, a calluragh being an unconsecrated or unofficial burial site, often used for unbaptised infants or others excluded from formal church burial. That proximity is unlikely to be coincidental. Such cross-inscribed stones frequently appear near burial grounds, boundary points, or sites of local religious significance, serving as markers in a landscape that was as much devotional as practical. The form of the cross, arcs within a circle rather than plain incised lines, suggests a confident, practised hand and a familiarity with decorative conventions common in early medieval Ireland, though pinning a precise date to uninscribed rock art of this kind is rarely straightforward. The stone was recorded by J. Cuppage as part of the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey published in 1986, a survey that remains one of the most thorough examinations of the Dingle Peninsula's extraordinary concentration of early monuments.