When surveyors first recorded it in 1969, it was planted upside down in the earth. By 1981 it had toppled entirely and was lying flat on the ground. It stands upright now, or at least the portion of it that survives does, measuring a visible 68 centimetres high and 50 centimetres across. The full original fragment, according to a sketch made around the time of the 1981 recording, ran to 1.9 metres in length, with a base notably wider than the shaft above it.

The slab is thought to be an early Christian cross-slab, a type of monument common in Ireland from roughly the sixth century onward, typically a flat stone incised with a cross rather than carved in the round. Two parallel lines running down the face of this example are interpreted as marking the shaft of a two-line cross, a relatively simple decorative form. The identification and measurements were recorded with the assistance of Professor Rynne, and the site was catalogued by Higgins in 1987. Children's burial grounds, known in Irish as cilliní, were used from the medieval period onward for the interment of unbaptised infants and others considered ineligible for consecrated ground; the presence of an early carved stone within one suggests the site may have had a longer or more complex devotional history than its later use implies.