What remains of it is not much to look at on first glance: the arms are gone, the head is gone, and only the lower shaft survives, roughly shaped and thin, at just four centimetres deep. But look more closely at the angles of the broken stone and you will find a detail that rewards patience, small round hollows carved where the arms once met the head, a feature associated with early medieval Irish crosses and sometimes interpreted as symbolic roundels or simple decorative articulation at the joints.

The cross was recorded by Patrick Healy in 1972 as part of a supplementary survey of ancient monuments at Glendalough, the early Christian monastic city in the Wicklow valley whose influence extended into the surrounding landscape. Lugduff, a townland rising to the south of the main Glendalough complex, sits within that wider sacred geography. Mica schist is the local stone, a metamorphic rock that splits into relatively thin slabs and was used throughout the area for grave markers, slabs, and small crosses. The dimensions Healy recorded, 0.9 metres high, 0.28 metres wide, and just 0.04 metres thick, suggest a slab cross rather than a freestanding high cross of the monumental type; it is closer in character to the modest inscribed slabs found at early monastic sites across Ireland, markers that served a devotional or commemorative function without aspiring to grandeur.