Standing just under a metre tall and cut from rough stone, it has one smooth face and one left entirely unworked, and an unworked extension projects from the top as though the carver set down their tools and simply did not return. Whether that abandonment was deliberate or interrupted is impossible to say, but the cross sits in its graveyard carrying that ambiguity without explanation.

The cross measures 0.93 metres high, 0.56 metres wide, and 0.19 metres thick. Its east face has been worked to a smooth finish, while the west face remains raw. That asymmetry, combined with the rough projection at the top, strongly suggests a work in progress rather than a completed object. It stands within a graveyard on the slopes of Slievereagh, roughly 80 metres north-east of a stream and associated holy well. A font, a basin-shaped stone vessel used historically for holding blessed water, also survives within the same graveyard enclosure, to the north-east of the cross. The presence of a holy well so close by points to an early devotional landscape, the kind where water sources, crosses, and burial grounds clustered together in ways that predate the formal parish church system.