What remains is the base of an early Irish high cross, a type of elaborately carved monumental stone that served as a focal point for prayer, preaching, and processional ritual at early medieval church sites. The cross shaft and head are gone, surviving only as separate fragments elsewhere in the same complex, but the base itself is substantial enough to read as an object in its own right: roughly 89 centimetres by 73 centimetres at its foot, tapering slightly toward the top, and rising to about 57 centimetres. Moulding runs around the angles, and on the upper surface a raised collar surrounds a square socket, the hollow that once received the tenon of the upright shaft.

The socket is the most eloquent detail. Its dimensions, 24 centimetres by 20 centimetres, with a depth of 17 centimetres, are precise enough to suggest the scale of what stood above it. The base belongs to the site of an early church at Cloone, a foundation typical of the early medieval period in the Irish midlands, when monasteries and smaller ecclesiastical settlements dotted the landscape and high crosses marked their sacred boundaries or central spaces. Sandstone, the material used here, is less common for high crosses than the harder granites or sandier schists found elsewhere in Ireland, and it weathers differently, which may partly explain why the upper sections did not survive intact. The association between this base and the other fragments at the site was noted by Kelly in 1993, suggesting the pieces were recognised as belonging to a single original monument.