What makes it quietly arresting is the precision of what was cut into it: a Latin cross outlined in lightly incised lines, with double-squared hollows carved into each of the four angles between the arms. The reverse is entirely blank. Someone, at some point in the early Christian centuries of Ireland, took considerable care over the front face of a very small stone.

The slab is one of a group found within St. Berrihert's Kyle, a site in County Tipperary associated with a saint whose cult is otherwise little known. The place retains a strong sense of long, quiet use. The cross-slabs here were described and catalogued by Ó hÉailidhe in 1967, and this one, designated slab 10 in that study, measures roughly 50 centimetres by 23 centimetres and is just 9 centimetres thick. The oval stone enclosure in which it now sits was constructed by the Office of Public Works in 1946, an arrangement that gathered and protected the slabs within a stepped internal structure. That intervention means the stones are now held in a somewhat formal setting, though the enclosure itself sits within what remains a recognisably early ecclesiastical landscape.

The incised cross form is typical of early Irish Christian stonework, where outline carving rather than relief sculpture was a common approach, particularly on smaller portable or low-set slabs. The squared hollows in the angles are a specific decorative detail worth looking for once you are standing over the stone. Given its position at ground level, the slab rewards a close look rather than a distant one.