It survives not in situ but in the stone store of the visitor centre at Sevenchurches, the name long applied to the monastic complex at Glendalough, reflecting the cluster of ecclesiastical buildings that once occupied the valley.

The fragment was recorded by Harold Leask in his 1950 study of Glendalough, a meticulous survey of the national monuments then vested in the Commissioners of Public Works. Leask catalogued it as the lower part of a small cross, noting its slender proportions. At just over an inch and a half thick, it represents the kind of minor sculptural object that monastic sites produced in considerable numbers during the early Christian period in Ireland, when carved stone crosses served both liturgical and commemorative functions. That so little of it remains makes precise interpretation difficult, but the fragment is enough to confirm that a cross of modest scale once stood or was displayed somewhere within the Glendalough complex.