In the graveyard at Killeen, among ancient and modern graves, there's a standing stone which is precariously leaning.
The standing stone is 2.40 metres tall, 79 centimetres wide and 65 centimetres thick.
It leans to the northwest (325°) by 32°.
The south face of the standing stone was Christianised in the 7th century by carving a four-petal flower, possibly an interpretation of a cross, inscribed in a double circle which measures 68.5 centimetres in diameter.
About 20 metres southeast from this standing stone is the burial place of Reverend David Lyons, parish priest of Louisburgh, marked with both a modern slab and an early Christian slab incised with a main cross surrounded by four smaller crosses. This kind of cross is known with the name of Cross of the Thieves.
In the same graveyard there are other ancient burials, some of them marked by interesting head stones.
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