It is, in fact, a surviving marker of a legal and administrative boundary that once defined the outer limits of Limerick city's jurisdiction, and it has been standing in more or less the same spot since 1786.

The stone records the boundary of the Liberties of the City of Limerick. The Liberties, in an Irish urban context, referred to the zone of civic authority extending beyond the city walls proper, a jurisdiction granted by royal charter that gave the city certain legal and commercial rights over the surrounding territory. Establishing and marking such boundaries in physical stone was a practical necessity; disputes over where city law ended and county law began had real consequences for taxation, trade, and land use. The Scart stone, dated 1786, is a sub-rectangular limestone slab measuring roughly half a metre high and just under sixty centimetres wide, smooth on its eastern face where the inscription was carved, and rough-cut on its other sides. The inscription itself has faded considerably, though its meaning remains legible enough to have been documented by Denis Power when the record was compiled.

The stone sits immediately east of a recently built garden wall, on the western side of the road. It is not signposted or set apart in any formal way, which means it requires a certain deliberateness to find. The setting is entirely ordinary, which is part of what makes it worth pausing over: the car forecourt and post office across the road represent the functional present, while this weathered slab records a moment when someone was sent out to mark, in permanent stone, exactly where the city's authority stopped. The eastern face, being the smoother and more finished side, is the one to examine closely, though patience is needed to read what remains of the lettering.