It is less than a metre tall, measuring just 0.95m in height and 0.34m across at its base, a quietly unassuming marker in a landscape that was clearly once considered significant enough to enclose and demarcate.

Cill Buaine, the name itself suggesting an early church site, sits on the Iveragh Peninsula, a stretch of south Kerry that preserves a remarkable density of early medieval remains. The cross's placement, 5.5 metres to the west of the enclosure boundary, is a detail worth pausing on. Crosses set near the entrances to early Christian enclosures, which were typically circular or oval areas defined by an earthen bank or stone wall and used to delimit sacred or monastic ground, often served as markers of transition, indicating the threshold between ordinary and sacred space. Whether this cross performed precisely that function here is uncertain, but the positioning near a possible entrance gives it a particular spatial logic.