What makes it quietly worth attention is a small oval depression sitting in the lower right-hand angle of that cross, a detail easy to miss and not entirely explained. Cross-slabs of this kind are among the earliest forms of Christian monument in Ireland, simple upright stones incised with a Latin cross, the form with arms of equal length, as distinct from the elongated shape more familiar from later church imagery. They predate the elaborate high crosses of the ninth and tenth centuries and were typically placed to mark graves or to sanctify ground in the early medieval period.

The slab stands 1.06 metres high and 0.25 metres wide at its base, modest dimensions that suit the understated character of such monuments. It was recorded as part of a broader archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula compiled by Aidan O'Sullivan and John Sheehan, published by Cork University Press in 1996, a survey that brought systematic attention to the dense concentration of early medieval and prehistoric remains across south Kerry. The small oval hollow at the cross's lower right angle has no obvious parallel noted in the available description; it may be a later addition, a worn feature of the original carving, or something deliberate whose meaning has not survived alongside the stone itself.