This small stone cross was found much lower, on the outer terrace of the steep, west-facing slopes of the South Peak, a location associated with what researchers have described as a forgotten hermitage, a more austere and isolated retreat even by the extreme standards of early Irish monasticism. The cross is now held at the OPW National Monuments Depot in Killarney rather than on the island itself, which gives it an oddly displaced quality, a fragment of one of the most remote religious sites in Europe, catalogued quietly on the mainland.

The cross is modest in every dimension: roughly 48 centimetres long, 25 centimetres wide, and only about 4 centimetres thick. It was never a refined or highly finished object. One arm is largely missing, though the shaft survives intact, and the head is rounded rather than the more elaborate wheel or ringed forms associated with later Irish crosses. Its rough shaping and small scale suggest it was made and used in conditions of considerable privation, consistent with what scholars know of the South Peak hermitage. The site appears in Horn, White Marshall, and Rourke's 1990 study of Sceilg Mhichíl, which drew attention to evidence of occupation on the South Peak beyond the better-documented monastery, including traces of a small oratory and cross-inscribed stones placed along a penitential ascent of extraordinary difficulty.