The record flags this site not as the place of origin but as the present location, a distinction that matters more than it might first appear. Cross-slabs, flat stones incised with a cross in any of several early medieval styles, were produced in Ireland from roughly the sixth century onwards and served a range of functions: grave markers, boundary indicators, objects of devotion. When one turns up somewhere other than where it began, the question of how it travelled, and why, becomes as interesting as the stone itself.

The slab in question is catalogued under the reference SL005-061004, with the present location in Dublin South City recorded separately from whatever its original context may have been. This kind of displacement is not unusual for early medieval stonework. Carved slabs were moved during later construction phases, incorporated into field walls or church buildings, shifted during land clearances, or simply carried off as curiosities. Dublin's south city has layers of medieval and post-medieval activity dense enough to have absorbed and obscured a great deal of earlier material, and a stone that once marked a grave or stood at a monastic boundary could easily have ended up repurposed or relocated without any formal record of the move.

Because the notes describe only the present location rather than the setting in any detail, visiting with a specific destination in mind requires consulting the Sites and Monuments Record entry for SL005-061004 directly, through the National Monuments Service or the Historic Environment Viewer, both of which are accessible online and give mapped coordinates. Cross-slabs can be easy to walk past; the incised lines weather and shallow over centuries, and in certain lights the carving nearly disappears into the surface of the stone. Catching it in a low, raking light, early morning or late afternoon, is generally the most reliable way to read the design clearly.