St. Kevin's Cross is the kind of site that exists more fully in scholarship than in the physical world, a place defined almost entirely by its absence. There is nothing to see at street level, no plaque, no outline, no marker of any kind. What makes it worth knowing about is precisely that gap between what the map says was there and what the ground now offers in return.

The main source for the cross's existence and approximate location is the Friends of Medieval Dublin Map, produced in 1978, which plots St. Kevin's Cross within Cross Street itself. The name of the street is, in all likelihood, a direct survival of the monument it once contained, the kind of quiet linguistic fossil that Dublin's older thoroughfares preserve without much fanfare. The cross would have been associated with the cult of St. Kevin, the sixth-century monk most closely connected with Glendalough in County Wicklow, though his influence extended into the medieval city through a network of dedications, parishes, and street-level devotional markers. Bradley and King's research, cited alongside the map reference, corroborates the general location, but by 2002, when Clarke surveyed the site, no visible surface remains could be identified. The cross had effectively vanished into the city.

Cross Street runs through the Liberties, the historically distinct area to the south and west of Dublin's medieval core, and it retains a density of old street names that reward a slow walk with a decent map. The area around St. Kevin's Street and the surrounding lanes contains several overlapping layers of medieval topography, most of it invisible at ground level but documented in sources like the Friends of Medieval Dublin survey. For anyone interested in this kind of urban archaeology, the Dublin City Council heritage maps and the Irish Historic Towns Atlas for Dublin are useful companions. The cross itself cannot be seen, but the street name, and the knowledge of what it once commemorated, gives even an ordinary pavement a slightly different character.