Within it, a stone cross lies broken into fragments, its solid wheel-head and bossed decoration marking it as an early medieval type, the kind carved before the more elaborate high crosses of later centuries became the norm. That cross, and the oval enclosure itself, are what remain of what was almost certainly an early church site.

John O'Donovan, the nineteenth-century scholar who travelled County Carlow for the Ordnance Survey Letters in 1839, identified the location as probably 'Cill Eogain', meaning the church of Eogain, an early Irish personal name. Early ecclesiastical sites in Ireland were frequently established within oval or curvilinear enclosures, a form that often predates the rectangular churchyards associated with later medieval parishes. The cross preserved here, though now in pieces, retains a plain shaft with traces suggesting a panel that may once have carried interlace ornament, a type of knotwork pattern common in early Irish stonework. The solid-wheeled form, without the open spaces seen in later ringed crosses, points to an early phase of Christian monument-making in the Irish tradition. Aerial photography carried out in 1989 confirmed the shape of the enclosure from above, giving a clearer sense of its extent than is visible from ground level.