The repair is visible, even blunt, and that frankly patched appearance is part of what makes the stone worth pausing over: at some point it broke clean in two, and someone decided it was worth saving.

The pillar, recorded by Higgins in 1987, is slender, measuring just 0.66 metres high and roughly 0.1 to 0.12 metres thick. Carved into its face is a pocked one-line Latin cross, its terminals expanded or wedge-shaped, fanning outward at each arm's end in a form common to early medieval Irish stonework. The technique of pocking, whereby the design is created by repeated small strikes rather than cut lines, gives the cross a slightly stippled texture rather than a clean incision. A second cross-slab is pinned to the same wall, just to the east of it, suggesting that Templenaneeve was, at some point, a place where such objects were deliberately gathered or preserved rather than simply left where they fell.