That kind of double inscription is unusual enough to make you look twice, but it is the carving on the western face that is genuinely puzzling: a plain Latin cross surmounted by a horizontal bar with a rectangular, downturned projection that almost touches the crown of the cross beneath it. No one seems to have settled on a confident explanation for what that bar represents.

The enclosure, known as Calluragh Burial Ground or An Cheallúnach, contains the ruins of a clochán (a dry-stone beehive hut of the early medieval period), the traces of what may be a souterrain (an underground stone-lined passage, often associated with early ecclesiastical or domestic sites), and the cross-slab itself, which stands just to the south-east of a low circular earthen mound. The eastern face of the pillar is carved with a cross whose arms and shaft end in large circular expansions, though the lowest terminal has been almost entirely lost to spalling. As early as 1912, Crawford recorded a second cross-slab at the same site, and a researcher named Curran documented the finding of two quernstones here as well; neither the second slab's precise fate nor the current whereabouts of the quernstones is known. A further cross-slab stands against the eastern side of a field boundary roughly 45 metres to the south-east, suggesting this small stretch of hillside was once considerably more active as a sacred or commemorative landscape than it might appear today.

The site sits in the broader archaeological terrain of Corca Dhuibhne, a peninsula so densely scattered with early medieval remains that individual features can easily be passed over. The cross-slab's modest dimensions, 1.25 metres high, 27 centimetres wide, and only 10 centimetres thick, mean it reads as a quiet object rather than a monument, but the deliberate carving on both faces suggests it was worked with some care and intention, even if that intention is no longer entirely legible.