What makes it quietly arresting is the surface itself: an irregular Latin cross carved in low relief, only six millimetres proud of the stone, with double-rounded hollows cut into the angles where the arms meet. The rest of the face is covered in tiny pits that appear to be entirely natural, a geological accident that gives the slab an almost porous, pocked texture. The back is blank.

The slab sits within St. Berrihert's Kyle, a place whose name alone signals some age and singularity. A kyle, in this context, refers to a small enclosed sacred precinct, and this one forms the southern sector of a broader ecclesiastical enclosure. The slab is one of a numbered series studied and catalogued by Ó hÉailidhe in 1967, where it appears as slab 16. The oval stone enclosure that now houses the collection of cross-slabs was built by the Office of Public Works in 1946, a mid-twentieth-century effort to gather and protect what are, in places, very modest but genuinely early carvings. The enclosure is stepped internally, giving it a slightly formal, tiered character that contrasts with the rough, worn nature of the slabs themselves.