It is one of four such stones that made the journey north from Whitefield in County Kerry, not for scholarly reasons initially, but as an exhibit. In 1853, the Macgillycuddy of the Reeks, the hereditary chieftain whose family name is bound to the mountain range that dominates south Kerry, brought the group of stones to the Dublin Exhibition, where they were displayed to the public.

At least two of the four stones, including this one, had been found inside a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage or chamber typically associated with early medieval ringforts and used for storage or refuge. The souterrain in question was located somewhere on the northwest side of Baunclune House in the Whitefield townland, though it never appeared on Ordnance Survey maps and has left no surface trace. The stone itself is a substantial pillar, at least 1.4 metres high and measuring 30 by 16 centimetres at its base. The inscription, deeply cut and read by R.A.S. Macalister in 1945 and confirmed by Damian McManus in 1991, runs GOSOCTEAS MOSAC MAKINI, a formula typical of early ogham commemorative stones, likely recording a person's name and ancestry. The stone carries the catalogue number 216 in Macalister's foundational corpus of Irish ogham inscriptions.

The stone has since been examined as part of the Ogham in 3D project run by the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, which uses photogrammetry and digital modelling to document inscriptions that centuries of weathering or handling have made harder to read. Full details of the digital record are available at ogham.celt.dias.ie. For anyone interested in tracing the stone's current precise location within Dublin south city, the record compiled by Nora White for the national monuments database is the most reliable starting point, as the notes confirm its present urban location without specifying a publicly accessible display address.