The slab itself is modest, roughly sixty centimetres high and of similar width, but its real oddity is how it relates to its surroundings: both the slab and the Latin cross carved in relief upon it extend downward below the surface of a flat oval slab at its base, meaning the stone was set here deliberately within a structure rather than simply planted in open ground.

The whole assembly, the cross-slab rising from a flat oval base and enclosed by a ring of upright stones, is thought to form a penitential station. These were fixed points in a devotional circuit, often found at early Christian sites, where pilgrims would stop to pray, frequently on their knees or while walking a prescribed route. The Latin cross carved here is plain and unadorned, a simple incised or relief form without the elaborate knotwork or figurative detail found on grander early medieval sculpture, which in its own way makes the stone feel older and more austere. The site holds a preservation order dating to 1940, which points to its having been recognised as significant well before the wider public interest in Ireland's early Christian landscape took hold.