The slab, found at the monastic site on Inchbofin island in Lough Ree, measures just 36 centimetres high and 48 centimetres wide, and on one face someone, at some point, carefully incised a word or name in lower-case letters. What survives reads as something like "each", with a probable but uncertain letter before it, most likely an "n". On the reverse, a small circular depression has been worn or worked into the stone. Whether that hollow served a ritual purpose, a practical one, or is simply a natural feature, is not recorded.

Inchbofin, a small island in Lough Ree on the Westmeath shore, was home to an early medieval monastery, one of several religious settlements that once dotted the islands of that lake. Such sites often produced inscribed slabs marking graves or commemorating individuals, and the fragmentary text here, tantalisingly incomplete, may well be the remnant of a personal name. The partial reading "[n?]each" could belong to any number of early Irish names ending in that syllable. Without the full inscription, any identification remains speculative. The slab has since been removed from the island and is now held at the Office of Public Works depot in Athenry, Co. Galway, a fate common to fragile or moveable finds from exposed archaeological sites, where controlled storage offers better protection than the elements.