The stone is modest in size, just 33 centimetres high and 13 centimetres wide, but its south-western face carries a carefully incised Latin cross, its arms and shaft formed from broad grooves that widen into rounded expansions at each terminal. That detail, the deliberate swelling at the ends of the shaft, suggests a maker working within a recognised tradition rather than simply scratching a mark into stone.

Cross-slabs of this kind are among the more understated survivals of early Christian Ireland. Unlike the tall, elaborately decorated high crosses that draw visitors to places such as Clonmacnoise or Monasterboice, a cross-slab is typically a single upright stone, incised rather than sculpted in relief, and often associated with a grave or a boundary within a small monastic enclosure. The Iveragh Peninsula has a particularly dense concentration of early medieval remains, documented in detail by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan in their 1996 archaeological survey of South Kerry, published by Cork University Press, which records this slab as part of a wider monument complex at the site.