In the graveyard at Ballymore Eustace, to the north of a 19th-century church, a granite Latin cross stands without much ceremony and without a clear date attached to it. That uncertainty is part of what makes it worth attention. A Latin cross, as distinct from the ringed high crosses more commonly associated with early Irish monasticism, has a simple elongated lower shaft and shorter arms, and this one has been only roughly shaped from the stone rather than dressed or carved with any elaboration. It measures 1.67 metres in height, 0.4 metres across the arms, and 0.15 metres in thickness, which gives it a presence that is solid without being monumental.

Bradley and colleagues, writing in 1986, recorded it as part of a broader survey of Kildare's medieval and early modern fabric, but even they could not assign it a firm date. Granite is a hard, resistant material that does not yield easily to the kind of detailed carving that might otherwise help place a cross within a particular stylistic period, and rough shaping of this sort could belong to almost any century. The graveyard itself is associated with the settlement of Ballymore Eustace, a village on the River Liffey in west Kildare with a documented medieval presence, though the cross itself carries none of that history on its surface.