Blink and the relief almost disappears. This is slab 60 at St. Berrihert's Kyle near Ardane in County Tipperary, one of dozens of early medieval cross-slabs gathered within an ecclesiastical enclosure that has been a focus of devotion for well over a millennium.

St. Berrihert's Kyle, an early Christian site whose name preserves the memory of an obscure local saint, contains a remarkable concentration of these inscribed stones. A cross-slab is essentially what it sounds like, a flat stone bearing a carved cross, often associated with early Christian burial or commemoration in Ireland from roughly the sixth century onwards. The oval stone enclosure that now houses the collection, stepped internally to display the slabs on ledges, was constructed by the Office of Public Works in 1946, giving the site its current formal arrangement. Slab 60, catalogued by Ó hÉailidhe in a 1967 study, sits on an internal ledge in the eastern sector of that enclosure. Its red sandstone is a local material, and the Latin cross rendered in such shallow relief suggests a carver working with restraint, or perhaps with haste, though the stone has survived the centuries rather better than the context of its making.