In a graveyard in County Kildare, five Early Christian cross-slabs survive together, which is already unusual enough. What makes this particular example stand out within that group is its material: a tapering shaft of reddish-brown conglomerate stone, set directly into the earth, with a rounded head bearing a Greek cross carved on its eastern face. A Greek cross, unlike the more familiar Latin form, has four arms of equal length, a design associated with the earliest centuries of Christian stonecutting in Ireland.

Cross-slabs of this type, essentially upright stone markers incised or carved with a cross rather than the more elaborate high crosses of later monasticism, are among the oldest surviving Christian monuments in the country. They tend to cluster at sites with long ecclesiastical histories, and Ballintine is no exception. The graveyard here also contains the remains of a church site, suggesting this was once an active religious settlement, though the records do not specify when it was founded or by whom. The slab itself measures 0.86 metres in height, with a shaft that widens slightly from top to base, ranging from 0.36 metres at the top to 0.3 metres at the base, and the rounded head has a diameter of 0.39 metres. It is a modest but carefully worked object, and the reddish conglomerate sets it apart visually from the grey limestone markers more typical of Irish graveyards.