It has been noted and catalogued as a monument, yet the details of what it looks like, when it was erected, and who placed it there remain, for now, officially unrecorded in any publicly accessible form.

Crosses of this kind in rural Ireland range enormously in type and origin. Some are early medieval incised slabs marking ancient burial grounds or pilgrimage routes; others are post-medieval wayside crosses erected to mark a boundary, a death, or a site of devotion. Without specific notes on this example, it is not possible to say which tradition Ballymihil's cross belongs to, but its inclusion in the national monuments record suggests it was considered significant enough to document, even if that documentation has not yet been made fully available. Clare itself has a deep concentration of early Christian and medieval remains, and crosses, whether freestanding, carved into rock faces, or set into field boundaries, are among the more quietly persistent features of that landscape.