The trouble is that nobody knows quite where. That single, unresolved fact gives the site an oddly compelling quality, the kind that comes not from dramatic ruins but from a gap in the record that nobody has managed to close.

The cross enters the historical record only once, in the minute book of the County Kerry Field Club for 1940. During a visit to St. Colman's Abbey, members of the club noted that the party had found a few stones of cloister arches as well as a tenth-century stone cross. The cloister stones speak to a monastic complex of some substance, and a cross of that date would place it among the earlier examples of Irish high-cross or grave-slab tradition, carved at a time when the island's monasteries were the primary centres of learning and craft. But the minute book entry is brief, and no subsequent survey appears to have pinned down exactly where within the graveyard the cross was observed. Whether it remains in situ, has been moved, or is simply overlooked among other stonework, remains an open question.