The stone is modest in scale, roughly 1.1 metres tall and about 35 centimetres on each side, yet the fact that crosses were cut into opposite faces gives it a quiet, deliberate quality, as though it was meant to be read from more than one direction.

Cross-slabs of this type are among the earliest forms of Christian grave marking in Ireland, predating the elaborate high crosses that tend to attract more attention. The incised cross, rather than a cross carved in relief, is characteristic of early medieval practice, when the act of inscription itself carried devotional weight. The setting adds another layer of significance. Children's burial grounds in Ireland, known as cilliní, were used for the interment of unbaptised infants and others considered ineligible for consecrated ground under Catholic canon law. They occupy a particular place in Irish social and religious history, sites of private grief that operated outside the formal structures of the Church. A cross-slab standing within one at Kilcomane suggests the site may have earlier origins, perhaps as a monastic or early Christian enclosure, with the cillín use coming later as the ground retained its association with burial.