The shaft of this early Christian cross at Calluragh burial ground, known in Irish as An Raingiléis, is so deeply buried in the ground that its visible 1.23 metres represents only a fraction of its true height. The cross sits within a settlement and burial ground on a steep south-east facing slope of Croaghmarhin, on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, and holds the status of a National Monument.

The site belongs to the tradition of early Christian settlement in the Corca Dhuibhne region, a part of west Kerry with an unusually dense concentration of early medieval ecclesiastical remains. Stone crosses of this type were typically erected as markers of sacred ground, boundary points, or objects of devotion, and were a common feature of early Irish monastic and burial landscapes. The Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, published by J. Cuppage in 1986, recorded the cross and its context, noting how the slope commands wide views across the surrounding countryside. What the survey could not resolve, and what remains unresolved today, is the question buried quite literally underfoot: how deep does the shaft go, and what is the cross's full extent.