The pillar is modest in scale, just 0.69 metres tall and 0.23 metres wide, yet the care with which it was incorporated into the fabric of the church wall suggests it was treated as something worth preserving rather than simply re-used as convenient building material.

Scholars John Waddell and Holland, writing in 1990, and Okasha and Forsyth, in their 2001 study, both documented the pillar and noted its carved wheeled cross, a form in which the arms of the cross intersect within a circle, a design with deep roots in early medieval Irish stonework. Okasha and Forsyth went further, proposing that this pillar may be a companion piece to a second inscribed pillar at the same site, and that the two together may originally have formed part of a shrine, a type of small reliquary monument sometimes constructed around the grave or relics of a local saint. The monastery at Toureen Peacaun is associated with an early ecclesiastical settlement, and the presence of what may have been a shrine structure adds a layer of devotional complexity to what can appear at first glance to be a quiet and fragmentary site.