One of these, relatively modest in its dimensions, holds a detail that rewards close attention: a small cross, only twelve centimetres tall with a span of ten centimetres, carefully cut into the west face of the stone. The cross has expanded terminals, meaning each arm of the cross flares outward slightly at its end, a decorative and symbolic convention common in early Irish ecclesiastical carving.

The stone itself stands sixty-two centimetres high, is forty-four centimetres wide at the base, and just eight centimetres thick, with a gently rounded top. It sits near a cross-base, the socketed block of stone that would originally have supported a larger standing cross, suggesting this corner of the graveyard was once a more elaborately marked sacred space. Cross-inscribed stones of this kind are associated with early medieval Irish Christianity, often serving as grave markers or devotional objects within monastic enclosures, and their presence in clusters, as here at Cloone, sometimes indicates a site of some local religious significance. The grouping of four such stones in a single graveyard is relatively uncommon and points to a long continuity of use at this location.