What makes it worth pausing over is not its size but what was done to one of its faces: the western side was smoothed flat, and into that prepared surface someone incised a Latin cross, shallow and deliberate, measuring just under half a metre in length. The arms of the cross end in bifurcated terminals, meaning each arm splits into a forked or branching tip, a decorative detail that places it within a tradition of early Christian stone carving found across Ireland.

The pillar is aligned on a north to south axis, which may or may not be significant depending on its original purpose and context, though oriented stones and cross-marked pillars are a known feature of the early medieval Irish landscape, sometimes marking boundaries, graves, or places of local devotion. The cross itself is described as a simple Latin cross, the form with a longer lower arm, and the shallowness of the incision suggests careful but unhurried work rather than deep relief carving. The reference to this stone in the scholarly literature dates the recorded description to 2002, in work by Swift.