What survives is a piece broken from a larger boulder, roughly 37 centimetres tall and 24 centimetres wide, carrying only part of a carved cross. The centre and portions of the upper and right arms are visible; the rest is gone. Yet even in this reduced state, the quality of the design is legible: a double outline cross with wedge-shaped arms, and the possibility, based on what remains, that this was once a ring cross, the familiar form in which a circle connects the arms near their junction.

The slab was recorded as part of the Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory compiled in 1992, where it was assigned the number CLN00463. Its first noted discovery dates to Davis in 1984, though at a site as long-studied and as repeatedly disturbed as Clonmacnoise, that date of discovery tells us more about documentation than about the stone itself. Clonmacnoise, founded in the sixth century on the banks of the Shannon in County Offaly, became one of the most important monastic centres in early medieval Ireland, and the density of carved grave-slabs found there reflects centuries of burial by people who wished to be interred on sacred ground. Many of those slabs carry inscriptions asking prayers for the deceased; this one carries none, which leaves whoever commissioned it entirely anonymous.

The fragment is now housed in Temple Rí, one of the smaller Romanesque churches within the monastic enclosure at Clonmacnoise. Visitors to the site, which is managed as a national monument, will find many of the surviving slabs displayed in the on-site visitor centre, though individual pieces are distributed across several locations within the grounds. The absence of an inscription and the broken condition of this particular stone mean it receives less attention than its more legible neighbours, but the partial cross cut into its surface is still clear enough to show the care that once went into carving it.