The slab stands just under a metre tall and is set into the southern face of the bank on the northern side of the road, presenting the cross to anyone who happens to be looking in the right direction at the right moment.

The cross itself is modest in scale, roughly 63 centimetres high and 35 centimetres wide, cut into the irregular surface of the granite with a single incised line only about two centimetres wide and three centimetres deep. What distinguishes it slightly from a plain Latin cross is a triangular-shaped terminal at its base, a detail that gives the lower arm a pointed, almost wedge-like finish. Incised crosses of this kind, where the design is scored directly into the stone rather than carved in relief, are found at various points across Ireland, and are often associated with early Christian practice, marking boundaries, paths, or places of local devotion. Whether this one served such a function, or was cut at a much later date by a less identifiable hand, is not recorded.