On one side, a rough Latin cross is faintly visible; on the other, a small equal-armed cross. Neither is especially refined, which is precisely the point. These are not the products of a professional mason working to a patron's specification, but the kind of modest, locally made devotional objects that characterised early medieval religious sites across Ireland.

The stone is one of six cross-slabs recorded at Dunurlin during a graveyard survey conducted by Laurence Dunne in 2010. It sits immediately to the west of a companion slab, the two forming part of a small cluster within the same area of the graveyard. The group also includes a modern slab bearing a Chi-Rho monogram, a symbol formed from the first two letters of Christ's name in Greek and common in early Christian iconography, which helps place the older pieces in their devotional context even if it post-dates them considerably. The sandstone of the older slabs, the roughness of the carving, and the equal-armed cross, a form that predates the more familiar elongated Latin cross in Irish usage, all suggest these objects belong to an early phase of Christian activity at the site, though the notes stop short of assigning a firm date.