What makes it worth pausing over is a subtle peculiarity: it is a wheeled cross, the kind where a ring connects the arms, but the spaces between the ring and the shaft are not pierced all the way through. The stone remains solid where you might expect to see sky.

The cross sits inside the nave of St. Caimin's church, 8.85 metres from the west gable, propped up on a cluster of smaller stones at its base. It is not large. R.A.S. Macalister, who documented it in 1916 to 1917, recorded its height at 0.86 metres and its width at the base as 0.35 metres, with the stone tapering noticeably from base to top, from 0.17 metres thick down to just 0.08 metres. Macalister was one of the most prolific recorders of early medieval stonework in Ireland, and his meticulous measurements give us a reasonably precise picture of an object that might otherwise be easy to walk past. The wheeled or ringed cross is a form strongly associated with early Christian Ireland, where the ring is usually thought to have served a structural purpose, bracing the arms of the cross in stone rather than timber. Here, though, the ring reads more as decorative or symbolic outline, since the stone behind it was never cut away.