The cross was reportedly pulled from a roadside hedge in the eighteenth century, which tells you something about how thoroughly early medieval stonework could disappear into the Irish landscape, only to re-emerge by accident. That it survived at all, let alone with identifiable imagery intact, is quietly remarkable.

The stone itself is a semi-pyramidal block of granite, standing 1.13 metres tall and widening to roughly 0.78 by 0.72 metres at the base. A mortice, the socket cut to receive a shaft, sits centrally in the top. Three of its four faces are decorated: the east, west, and south sides are framed by roll-moulding and divided by a horizontal bar into upper and lower panels, a compositional arrangement typical of Irish high crosses, those large free-standing carved crosses that served as open-air focal points for early Christian communities. The north face is left plain. The lower panels carry figure sculpture, though erosion has blurred much of it. On the east face, scholars have identified St Michael Weighing Souls and Daniel in the Lions' Den. The west face shows the Fall of Adam and Eve. The south face departs into more secular territory, with a hunting scene and two rearing animals. Whether the upper panels once held carving that has since worn away entirely is not certain. The cross is protected under the National Monuments Acts, having been subject to a preservation order since 1940.