It is all that remains of what was once a standing cross, and even by the standards of fragmentary medieval stonework, this one has had a particularly troubled afterlife. The base, measuring seventy centimetres by forty-five centimetres, retains a rectangular socket where a shaft would once have been seated, but the shaft itself is gone. The head, which was still present as recently as 1981, has since disappeared entirely.

When the cross was recorded in detail in 1981, the head was still lying nearby, broken but legible. One face carried a crucifixion scene; the other, a pietà, the image of the Virgin holding the body of Christ after the Crucifixion, a subject more common in Continental European devotional art than in Irish stone carving. Around the pietà ran traces of an inscription, only partially decipherable, with the letters C ERALD ROWN visible beneath it. The meaning of that fragmentary text has never been fully resolved. Earlier than this 1981 account, a watercolour of the complete cross was made in 1864 by George Du Noyer, a prolific topographical artist who travelled widely across Ireland documenting antiquities. That drawing, now held in the library of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, preserves the only known image of the cross in something close to its whole form. By the time of a more recent site visit, the head could not be located at all, leaving only the base and the socket as physical evidence that the cross ever stood here.