It originally stood on Sceilg Mhichíl, the remote island monastery off the Kerry coast where early Christian monks established one of the most austere religious communities in Ireland, and it is now held at the Office of Public Works National Monuments Depot in Killarney, quietly catalogued and kept from further deterioration.

The cross itself is modest in every dimension: forty centimetres long, fifteen wide, and barely four thick, with the short stumps of two arms and a head that has been partially damaged over time. The shaft, at least, remains largely intact. It is described as rudimentary, which in the context of early Irish stonework simply means it was worked without great elaboration, a plain incised or shaped form rather than the ornate ringed high crosses more commonly associated with the period. Pieces like this one would have been common features of monastic enclosures, markers of sacred space rather than objects of display. Given the conditions on Sceilg Mhichíl, where Atlantic weather has been eroding stone for over a millennium, its survival in any form is quietly notable.