It sits in the Stone Store at the Visitor Centre, removed from its original context, one of its arms missing, and only about five centimetres thick. It is, by any measure, an unassuming object, yet its plainness is itself informative. Early Irish stone crosses ranged from elaborately carved high crosses, covered in scriptural scenes and interlace, to simple undecorated forms like this one, which would have served as markers within a monastic enclosure without any of that visual ambition.

The cross was found in 1912 at the western end of St Kevin's Church, one of the cluster of early Christian buildings at Glendalough, a site traditionally associated with the sixth-century monastic founder St Kevin. Harold Leask, writing in 1950, described it as a plain cross resembling another example from the same complex, cataloguing it among the architectural and sculptural fragments he documented for the Commissioners of Public Works. Leask's study remains a key reference for the site's stonework, and his drawing of this particular cross gives a clearer sense of its original form than the damaged object alone might suggest.