It measures just 0.67 metres by 0.46 metres and stands only 0.3 metres high, barely knee height. What lifts it out of the ordinary is what has been cut into its face: a Greek cross, the kind with four arms of equal length, enclosed within a circle roughly 18 centimetres in diameter. The carving is weathered now, softened by centuries of Atlantic weather, but the intention behind it is still legible.

The stone sits atop a cairn, a mound of stones that in the Irish landscape typically marks a burial or commemorates a significant place. The combination of a cairn and an incised cross-slab points toward the early medieval period, when Christian communities across Ireland adopted and adapted older monuments rather than clearing them away. The Greek cross enclosed in a circle is a form that appears across early Christian stonework in Ireland and Britain, and carving it onto a stone placed at or near a burial site would have served both as a marker and as a statement of faith. The sandstone itself, a relatively soft material compared to granite, is common in this part of Cork, which helps explain both why the carving was made here and why the decoration has worn as much as it has over time.