In a graveyard in Ballymore Eustace, a granite slab stands upright in the ground, tapering slightly as it rises to just over a metre in height. On its western face, a Latin cross has been cut in broad, confident strokes into the stone. It is the kind of object that rewards a second glance: modest in scale, unadorned beyond that single incised cross, and easy to pass without fully registering what it is.

The slab is earthfast, meaning it is set directly into the ground rather than mounted on a base or incorporated into a wall, a method of placement that suggests considerable age and a tradition of marking burial or sacred ground with standing stone rather than inscribed monument. At 1.2 metres tall and tapering from roughly 61 centimetres at its widest to 45 centimetres, it is a substantial piece of worked granite. It sits beside a high cross in the same graveyard, the two early Christian stone monuments sharing a space that has clearly been a site of religious significance for a very long time. Christiaan Corlett, writing in 2003, catalogued it as Slab 3 among the carved stones associated with the site.