One face bears a Latin cross, its arms ending in expanded terminals, set above a circular roundel filled with a fret-pattern of interlocking T-shapes and a small ringed depression at its centre. Above that cross sits a debased triquetra-knot, the triquetra being a three-cornered interlaced motif commonly associated with early Christian carving in Ireland. The opposite face has a simpler version of the same Latin cross. More striking still are the carvings on the upper edges and top of the pillar: swastikas, an ancient symbol of good fortune or solar movement long predating its modern associations, appear on each side with grooves alternating between their arms, and a small equal-armed cross marks the upper surface. The total effect is of a single modest object pressed into service as a kind of compendium of early medieval decorative thought.

The pillar measures 94 centimetres in total length and tapers from 19 centimetres wide at its base to 14 centimetres at the top, averaging about 8 centimetres in thickness, dimensions that suggest it was designed to be set upright in the ground rather than laid flat. It did not always stand where it stands now. Originally it occupied the north-west quadrant of a nearby site and was relocated in 1989 by the Office of Public Works to its present position beside a leacht, which is a low cairn-like monument traditionally associated with prayer and the commemoration of the dead, often found at early ecclesiastical sites. That act of repositioning, though intended to preserve the stone, means its original relationship to the surrounding landscape can no longer be directly read. The carvings themselves are consistent with the kind of early Christian stonework documented across the Iveragh Peninsula in South Kerry, a region with a particularly dense concentration of early medieval ecclesiastical remains.