In a townland whose very name gestures towards a monastic past, a small piece of limestone survives that is easy to overlook precisely because of its modesty. The fragment, measuring just 34 centimetres long and 32 centimetres wide, carries faint incised decoration that resolves, on close inspection, into what appear to be leaves. The current thinking, recorded in the mid-1980s, is that this may once have formed part of a cross head, the upper section of a carved stone cross of the kind associated with early Irish ecclesiastical sites.

The "Abbeyland" element of the townland name is itself a quiet indicator of what once stood here, most likely a religious house or at least an ecclesiastical enclosure of some description. The limestone fragment, catalogued by Bradley and colleagues in their 1986 survey, is all that visibly remains of any decorative stonework from that context. At only 11 centimetres thick, it is a sliver of what would have been a more substantial carved object. Whether the leaf motifs are purely decorative or carry any symbolic weight is difficult to say with certainty, partly because the incisions have faded considerably and the fragment lacks the wider context that a more complete carving would provide.