That move came in 1970, when the slab was presented to the National Museum of Ireland, where it has remained since, logged under registration number 1970:189. Its modest dimensions, 42 centimetres long, 25 centimetres wide, and just under 15 centimetres thick, give little away about its age or original purpose.

Cross-slabs are among the more understated survivals of early Irish Christianity, typically flat stones incised with a cross in one of several conventional forms, and often associated with grave markers or boundary stones at ecclesiastical sites. This example, from the Kilbride area of Wicklow, was originally located within a graveyard, and the shallow groove terminating in that recessed panel is understood to represent a cross form, though an unusually restrained one. The granite itself is a practical local choice in Wicklow, a county where the material is abundant, and it weathers slowly, which may account for the groove remaining legible at all. The slab was described and documented by Raftery in 1973, and later discussed by Healy in 2009, suggesting it attracted at least passing scholarly attention even before it left the county.