The pillar itself is modest in scale, standing 0.63 metres high and 0.35 metres wide, with a cross inscribed in outline on its north face. What gives it a particular quiet oddness is its setting: it has been placed within a low cairn, a small deliberate mound of stones roughly 1.5 metres across and 0.6 metres high, suggesting that whoever erected it was not simply planting a marker in the ground but performing something more considered.

Cross-inscribed pillars of this kind are scattered across early Christian Ireland, often associated with boundaries, routeways, or places of local devotion that predate or existed alongside formal ecclesiastical structures. The inscription of a cross in outline, rather than carved in relief, is a relatively simple technique, but its presence on a freestanding granite pillar set into a cairn points to deliberate ritual or commemorative intent. The proximity to a graveyard, located roughly 200 metres to the east, suggests a relationship between the two sites, though whether the pillar predates the burial ground, marks an approach to it, or simply occupies the same general sacred landscape is not recorded. Granite, the local material here in the Wicklow uplands, is a hard stone to work, which makes even a simple incised cross a meaningful act of effort.