Cross-inscribed stones, or cross-slabs, are among the more understated survivals of early medieval Christian practice in Ireland; rather than carved monuments intended to impress, they tend to be plain, local stones into which a cross was cut, often to mark a grave or consecrate a place. What makes the group at Kilmore unusual is the sheer concentration of them, fourteen in total, gathered in the upslope section of what was once a medieval burial ground.

The fourteen slabs were formally recorded by Dunne in 2012, who described them collectively as rough, inscribed slabs, all located in the older, elevated part of the graveyard. The clustering in that upslope area is itself suggestive, pointing toward a nucleus of early activity at the site, where the simplest form of Christian memorial, a stone and a cut cross, was repeated again and again over what may have been several centuries. This particular stone is identified as cross-slab number three in the graveyard survey carried out as part of that work.