The cross itself is modest, measuring roughly eleven centimetres high by fourteen wide, incised into a stone that stands just over half a metre tall and barely three centimetres thick. That thinness is part of what makes it remarkable: the slab is almost leaf-like, a fragile-seeming thing to have survived in a graveyard at all. It is one of two such sandstone slabs recorded at the site, both sharing the same distinctive reddish material and similarly slight proportions.

The stone was recorded by Caimin O'Brien, whose notes from a personal communication in May 1986 provide the primary description of it. The graveyard itself, catalogued under the reference LI040-115002, sits at Ballynahinch in County Limerick. Cross-inscribed stones of this kind are found at early Christian sites across Ireland, where a simple incised cross, rather than a fully carved relief, served as a devotional or commemorative marker. The cutting of such a cross into a flat stone surface was a widespread practice, though the precise date and purpose of any individual example is often impossible to pin down without further excavation or documentary evidence. Aerial photographs of the wider site were taken in January and May of 2003 as part of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.

The complication for any visitor is a practical one: by the time the record was compiled and uploaded in 2019, the cross-inscribed stone could no longer be located within the graveyard. The notes state plainly that it was expected in the northern quadrant of the site, but was not found. The second sandstone slab associated with the record may still be present, and the graveyard itself remains a real place worth approaching carefully and respectfully, as active or historic burial grounds often are. Anyone with a serious interest in the stone might find it worth contacting the National Monuments Service or consulting the Sites and Monuments Record directly, where the aerial survey photographs are held, in case more recent fieldwork has clarified its whereabouts.