Most people who visit Moone in County Kildare come for the celebrated high cross inside the ruined church enclosure, one of the tallest and most elaborately carved early medieval crosses in Ireland. Fewer notice what remains of a second cross entirely, standing quietly to the south of that same church: a low, two-stepped pyramidal base, undecorated and truncated, with nothing rising above it but air.

What survives is modest in scale, roughly 0.7 metres tall, tapering from a base of around 58 by 46 centimetres to a narrower top. At its summit is a mortice, a square socket cut into the stone to receive a tenon on the shaft above, the standard method by which early medieval Irish sculptors joined the sections of a high cross together. The rebate, a shallow recessed lip cut around the edge of that socket, would have helped seat the shaft more securely. The shaft itself is long gone. The base carries no figural carving or interlace of any kind, which makes it harder to date or attribute with confidence, though its presence alongside the more famous Moone Cross suggests the site once supported more than one such monument. High crosses of this period, broadly the eighth to tenth centuries, typically marked important ecclesiastical settlements, and Moone had strong associations with the Columban monastic tradition.