The cross itself is long gone; what remains is the socket that held it, a sub-rectangular mortice cut into the stone measuring roughly 27 centimetres by 17 centimetres. A cross-base of this kind is essentially the anchor point, a dressed block of stone shaped to receive the tenon at the foot of a standing cross, keeping it upright against weather and time. In this case, the weather and time won.

The base was recorded in a field note from November 1989, and the granite from which it is cut is typical of the Wicklow uplands, a durable local material used across the region for ecclesiastical and funerary stonework. Its position outside the chancel wall places it within what would once have been a functioning church complex, though the cross it once held could have served any number of purposes, marking a grave, a boundary, or a place of devotion. Without the cross itself, the mortice is the only clue that something significant once stood here, a small hollow in stone that quietly records an absence.