On one face, a Latin cross has been incised roughly six millimetres into the stone, its head faintly splayed at the top; turn it over and the reverse carries a second Latin cross, this one rendered in very low relief, as if pressing itself quietly back into the surface. The object is easy to overlook, which is perhaps part of what makes it worth noticing.

St. Berrihert's Kyle is an early ecclesiastical enclosure, a site associated with an early Irish saint and enclosed in the manner common to early Christian monastic settlements across Ireland. The slab itself, catalogued as 43A/43B by the scholar Ó hÉailidhe in 1967, is one of a collection of early cross-slabs gathered within an oval stone enclosure, stepped internally, that was constructed by the Office of Public Works in 1946. That intervention, modest as it sounds, was a deliberate act of preservation; the enclosure was built to house and protect a group of carved stones that might otherwise have been lost to dispersal or damage. The cross-slab sits in the south-east sector of this enclosure, resting on top of the wall rather than standing upright, its two faces each carrying a different interpretation of the same simple form.