That alone gives it a quietly displaced quality, the kind of object that has clearly had more than one life. Standing just over a metre and a quarter tall, with arms spanning roughly forty centimetres, it is a Latin cross, the familiar upright form with a shorter horizontal bar, and it carries decoration on both faces that rewards close attention.

One face bears an incised circle at the crux, the point where the arms intersect, with a cross rendered in relief rising above it. The other face is the more unexpected one: its central circle contains a marigold motif rather than a cross, and parallel incised lines run down the length of the stem. The combination of Christian and decorative motifs on the same object is not unusual in early Irish stone carving, but the marigold is a distinctive touch, a geometric flower pattern that appears in manuscript illumination and metalwork as well as in stone. The cross was recorded by Ranson in 1945 and again in 1948, and its origins lie in Raheenlusk townland before it was moved to its present location.

The cross is now held in the County Wexford Museum, which is housed within Enniscorthy Castle. The castle itself is a substantial tower house in the centre of the town, and the museum inside it holds a range of local material. The cross sits among that collection, a little removed from the landscape it once marked, but at least visible and under cover.