The slab is incised with a cross that runs almost the full length of the stone, a scale that gives it an unusual visual authority. The base of the cross is stepped, a decorative treatment also found on its near neighbour to the north. At the top, two horizontal arms of equal length form a double-barred cross, with small subsidiary crosses marking each of the two points where the arms meet the shaft. Ornate decoration fills the spaces around the arm-ends and the top of the shaft, suggesting the work of a carver with both ambition and skill.

Corcomroe Abbey, a Cistercian foundation in the Burren, provides the broader setting. The presbytery, the eastern section of a church where the altar stands and where the most significant burials were traditionally located, was precisely the place where a carved slab of this quality would have been laid. Immediately to the north of this stone lies another cross-slab with a similarly stepped base, that one carrying a seventeenth-century inscription added over an earlier design, the two slabs forming a quiet pair that spans the transition between late medieval and early modern funerary carving. The stepped-base motif links them visually, though the incised cross on this slab stands alone in the elaborateness of its terminal decoration.