Carved with the familiar motif of skull and crossbones, each bears a Latin phrase: VELA BRIVI on one, and NE ME NAMORI on the other. The second phrase gestures towards a plea against forgetting, something close to "do not let me be forgotten", though the Latin is irregular enough to suggest a local or vernacular hand at work rather than a classically trained one. The first, VELA BRIVI, remains more opaque.

According to a note recorded by the Kerry Field Club in 1945, the two stones are reputedly the remnants of an altar raised in memory of a woman of the Fitzmaurice family, who is said to be buried at the site. The Fitzmaurices were a prominent Norman-Irish dynasty in Kerry, and their presence across the county is woven into place names, ruins, and family histories throughout the region. The church itself, whose Irish name Cill Tóime identifies it as the church of a person named Tóime, is now a ruin, though its graveyard remains. The combination of skull and crossbones imagery with fragmentary Latin inscriptions on what may have been altar stones points to a post-medieval Catholic memorial tradition, one in which formal commemoration of the dead was expressed through carved stone even after the structures built to house such memorials had fallen away.