The second of the pair is a modest thing, only 57 centimetres tall and tapering to a base roughly 16 by 10 centimetres, yet cut into its western face, low down, is a single-line Latin cross. That positioning is quietly curious. Rather than occupying the centre of the stone, the cross sits near the bottom, which may reflect local carving conventions, the particular intentions of whoever commissioned it, or simply the grain and shape of the available stone.

Cross-slabs of this kind are among the more understated survivals of early Christian Ireland. Unlike the elaborate high crosses that draw visitors to sites such as Monasterboice or Clonmacnoise, a cross-slab is typically a plain upright stone incised with a cross, often marking a grave or defining sacred ground within an early ecclesiastical enclosure. The Latin cross form, with arms of equal or near-equal length, is one of the most common variants found across Kerry and the wider south-west, where such stones cluster in areas that saw monastic activity from roughly the sixth century onwards. The site at An Lóthar, documented in Aidan O'Sullivan and John Sheehan's archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula published by Cork University Press in 1996, sits within that broader tradition, though the pairing of two slabs in such close proximity gives it a particular character.