The figure of Christ carved in raised outline on one face has a tilted head and drooping outstretched arms, the posture of the crucifixion clearly intended, yet the carving stops short of completion. Measuring 1.2 metres wide and 1.4 metres tall, with short arms springing from a small solid ring in the manner of a ringed high cross, it is a substantial piece of work. The arms and shaft are decorated with volutes, the spiralling ornamental motifs common to early medieval Irish stonework, which makes the unfinished Christ figure all the more conspicuous by contrast.

The cross was not always where it now stands. Nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey maps recorded it some 65 metres to the west-north-west of the local church and graveyard, positioned on the summit of a small hillock. That hillock no longer exists; it was quarried away at some point after the maps were made, and the cross was relocated to the graveyard wall it now rests against. By 2013, Dr. Christy Cunniffe confirmed it had been affixed there permanently. The site had attracted scholarly attention well before that, with references appearing in publications from 1914 and 1918 onwards, and it was included in Peter Harbison's comprehensive 1992 corpus of Irish high crosses. Whether the carving was left incomplete because the craftsman died, the commission was abandoned, or the stone proved difficult, is not recorded anywhere.