It carries no carved figure, no inscription, no elaborate knotwork. What it has instead is a shape: concave notches cut into each side, narrowing the stone at its middle and then opening again into a roughly semicircular head. This is a waisted cross-slab, a form in which the outline of the stone itself does the work of suggesting a cross, rather than any decoration applied to its surface.

The slab measures 0.86 metres in height, with a maximum width of 0.35 metres and a thickness of around six to seven centimetres. It sits loosely in the ground, its broad faces turned to the east and west, the orientation conventional for early Christian grave markers in Ireland. It belongs to a graveyard associated with an early monastic foundation on Inishbofin, an island with a long ecclesiastical history. Inishbofin was home to a monastery founded in the seventh century, and the presence of these slabs connects the site to a widespread but often understated tradition of early medieval stone carving across the Irish west. A second, similar cross-slab is also present in the same graveyard, which suggests the stones were not isolated curiosities but part of a considered, if plain, funerary practice. Higgins, writing in 1987, documented this example as one of many such stones catalogued across Connacht, each one modest in execution but legible within its own quiet grammar of form.