The cross, cut in relief on the upper face of the stone with two raised bosses flanking the arms beneath, is the only above-ground trace of an early ecclesiastical site that local tradition holds is now buried under the surrounding houses. It is not visible at ground level from within the estate itself, and the whole arrangement has a quietly dislocated quality: a piece of early Christian stonework marooned beside a residential road, the community it once served replaced by one entirely unaware of its presence.

The broader site on which the estate sits is believed locally to have been a church and graveyard. Cartographic evidence adds weight to that belief. The 1907 Ordnance Survey six-inch map shows a roughly semicircular curve in the field boundary at this location, the kind of curved enclosure line that often indicates the outline of an early ecclesiastical enclosure. The 1838 edition names an adjacent field as "Glebe", a term for land historically set aside for the income of a parish clergyman, which suggests that the ecclesiastical character of the area was still recognised well into the nineteenth century. The cross-slab itself was noted by O'Flanagan in 1928 as being situated in the graveyard, though the graveyard, if it survives at all, is not accessible or visible today.

The slab stands to the east of the estate, close to the road, and that is where it can be found. Its carved face, with the irregular relief cross and paired bosses, repays a close look, the irregularity of the cross being a reminder that early medieval stonework of this type was rarely uniform, shaped as much by the individual carver and available stone as by any fixed template.