The letters sit just above the wheel, one on either side of the shaft, worn past the point of recovery. Whatever name or invocation they once spelled out has gone with them.

The pillar stands just under 80 centimetres tall, relatively slender at 21 centimetres wide, and belongs to the monastic site at Toureen Peacaun in County Tipperary. A wheeled cross, sometimes called a ringed cross, is a form in which a circle connects the arms, common in early medieval Irish stone carving. The pillar was not always where it now sits. A photograph from the 1930s shows it positioned at the west end of the church, serving as a devotional station, one of the marked stopping points used during a pattern or penitential circuit of a sacred site. It was built into its current position in the east gable, 1.82 metres from the south-east angle, around 1944, presumably to preserve it or prevent further movement. The shift means it has lived two distinct lives at the same site, first as a functional object in living religious practice, then as something closer to a specimen, fixed into masonry for safekeeping.