The stone is not especially large, rising to about 72 centimetres, tapering gently as it goes, and it carries on its eastern face a broad cross carved in relief. That cross, and the circumstances of the slab's installation, are what make it worth a second look.

The slab is a graveslab, a type of funerary marker common across medieval Ireland, typically laid flat over a burial but occasionally set upright as a boundary or commemorative marker. What is unusual here is that whoever positioned this one in its current upright stance placed it the wrong way round, so that the cross faces east as convention would generally require, but the stone itself is inverted. Adding to the puzzle, the initials E : N appear on the carved face, possibly added at a later date than the cross itself, suggesting the stone may have been repurposed or rededicated at some point in its history. Whether the inversion was a practical accident or reflects some deliberate reuse of an older stone is not recorded.