What makes it worth stopping for is the cross carved into its face: a wheeled Latin cross-head, the kind where a circle connects the arms, roughly worked and noticeably asymmetrical. The left side is carved in relief while the right side is merely incised, shallower and less defined, as though the carver set the tool down one afternoon and never came back. The head measures just 43 centimetres high and 37 centimetres wide, and is almost certainly the surviving portion of a once larger slab.

The execution is uneven throughout. The shaft and arms are broadly similar in thickness, around 10 centimetres, but the right arm runs slightly wider than the left at 11 centimetres, and the wheel encircling the cross is nothing more than a single incised line. None of this reads as incompetence so much as informality; graveslabs of this type were often local, practical objects rather than commissioned works, and the roughness may simply reflect the resources and skills available to whoever ordered it. The slab was reported to the National Monuments Service by a local resident, Jim Neville, and its origins remain uncertain. It may date to the 17th century, though where it originally stood, and whose grave it once marked, is not known.

The slab is visible from the roadside in Kilkishen without any particular effort to seek it out, embedded in the wall as though it has always belonged there.