It is not freestanding, not especially large, and not the first thing a visitor's eye falls upon, yet it carries the kind of careful early medieval craftsmanship that rewards a closer look. The slab, just under a metre and a half tall and nearly three quarters of a metre wide, has a rounded top and bears a ringed cross in high relief, the arms of Latin form and slightly expanded at their ends, a detail that gives the design a controlled elegance without tipping into ornament.

The stone was recorded by Harold Leask, whose mid-twentieth century work on Irish churches and monastic buildings remains a standard reference, and it appears in drawings published by Robert Cochrane in a report prepared for the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, issued in 1925 but drawing on survey work documented in their report for 1911 to 1912. A ringed cross, sometimes called a Celtic cross in popular usage, combines the Christian cross with a circle that may originally have served a structural purpose, distributing the weight of the carved arms in a free-standing context. On a flat slab like this one, the ring is purely decorative and symbolic, and the high-relief carving gives it a sculptural presence that flat incised work would not achieve. By the time the stone was photographed as part of an exhibition display at the local visitor centre in 2005, it had already been studied and illustrated for nearly a century, yet it remains relatively little discussed outside specialist literature on early Irish stone carving.