Carved into one face is a Latin cross with expanded terminals, a form in which the arms of the cross flare outward at their ends, common in early medieval Irish ecclesiastical stonework. The slab is modest almost to the point of anonymity, yet it marks a site that was considered significant enough to bury the dead in, generation after generation, until well into the nineteenth century.

The enclosure belongs to a category of burial ground known in Irish as a calluragh, a term referring to unconsecrated ground where unbaptised infants and others excluded from formal church burial were interred. These sites were often ancient enclosures repurposed across the centuries, their pre-Christian origins lending them a liminal quality that made them suitable, if unofficial, places of the dead. Within this particular enclosure, the foundations of three huts can still be traced, and the rest of the interior is given over almost entirely to graves. The cross-slab itself, with its carefully inscribed terminals, suggests an early Christian presence at the site long before its later use as a calluragh, though the two phases of activity were probably not unconnected in local memory or practice.