The stone is only about 0.3 metres long, and according to the scholar R.A.S. Macalister, writing in 1945, it was already at that point 'lost to sight'. It is one of six ogham stones, a form of early medieval script carved as notches along the edge of a stone, that were originally discovered repurposed as roof lintels inside a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage typically associated with an early Irish ringfort, or rath, in the townland of Rockfield Middle in County Kerry.

The six stones had already led well-travelled lives before Macalister came to document them. They were first recorded by Barry in 1891, who noted their presence in the souterrain within the rath. At some point after their discovery, four of the stones were removed and incorporated into a cottage in the nearby village of Laharan. Three of those four were later taken again, this time acquired for Lord Dunraven's mansion at Adare in County Limerick, where they remain. The fourth stone, the one that concerns us here, was left behind in Laharan, recorded by Macalister as built into Patrick Quirk's gable wall. Its inscription, such as it was, yielded only an unintelligible sequence rendered as 'V?GOLAM', a fragment too damaged or ambiguous to decode with any confidence. Whether the stone is still somewhere within the fabric of a building in the area, or has since been lost entirely, is not known.