It is easy to overlook: barely half a metre tall, roughly thirty centimetres wide and twenty deep. What makes it worth pausing over is carved into its southeastern face, a face-ringed Latin cross measuring thirty-three centimetres high, its arms ending in expanded terminals, the whole contained within a ring that frames it like a halo pressed flat against the stone.

The face-ringed cross is a form associated with early medieval Irish Christianity, where the encircling ring may have structural origins, bridging the arms of the cross to give carved stone greater stability, though it came to carry its own symbolic weight over centuries of use. The expanded terminals, flaring slightly at the tips of each arm, are a decorative detail found across a range of early ecclesiastical carvings in Munster. The slab's long axis runs northeast to southwest, an orientation that may reflect the alignment of the burial ground itself or the conventions of whoever set the stone in place. Nothing in what survives tells us who commissioned it or when exactly it was made, only that it stands at the margin of a graveyard, marking something, perhaps a grave, perhaps a boundary, perhaps simply a presence that someone once felt needed to be declared in carved stone.