It measures just under a metre in length and is badly weathered, broken at the shaft end, and partially buried in the kind of agricultural ground that has absorbed centuries of forgetting. What makes it worth pausing over is what remains visible on one face: a ringed cross carved in relief, its central boss intact and two of its terminal bosses still legible despite the erosion, the angles between the truncated arms and shaft deliberately hollowed in a manner that was once standard practice in early medieval Irish stone carving.

The ringed cross, sometimes called a Celtic cross, is a form with deep roots in Irish ecclesiastical art, the circle connecting the arms of the cross thought to have both structural and symbolic functions. The bosses, rounded projections placed at the centre and tips of the arms, are a decorative feature associated with early Christian metalwork that was later translated into stone. This particular fragment almost certainly once belonged to a freestanding high cross or cross-slab associated with the friary nearby. Whether it fell, was broken deliberately, or simply succumbed to the slow pressure of time and soil is not recorded. What survives is a section of shaft and part of the cross head, enough to read the design but not enough to reconstruct the whole.