By the time the antiquarian Hitchcock recorded it in 1853, this ogham stone, originally from Rathmalode in County Kerry, had been repurposed as a lintel over a cottage door in the nearby townland of Lougher. Ogham is an early medieval Irish script in which letters are represented by clusters of notches and strokes cut along the edge of a stone, typically used to record personal names and lineage. The fact that someone had pressed this particular stone into service as a door header, apparently without much concern for what was carved on it, is a reminder of how thoroughly the meaning of these inscriptions had faded from everyday memory by the post-medieval period.

Before the cottage doorway, the stone had served an earlier secondary purpose: as a lintel inside a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage associated with a nearby ringfort in Rathmalode townland. A ringfort, known in Irish as a ráth, was a circular enclosed settlement, common across early medieval Ireland, typically defended by earthen banks and ditches. Macalister, writing in 1945, described the fort itself as small and largely erased from the landscape, but it remains the only known ringfort in the townland, making it the most plausible original source of the stone. The inscription it carries reads CURCI MAQI MUCOI, followed by a name beginning with V, though the stone is fractured at that point and the final name is incomplete. To complicate matters further, the last four letters of the inscription are hidden beneath the wooden base in which the stone now stands in the museum at Ballyferriter, meaning Macalister's reading of that section has never been independently confirmed. The visible portion, however, is clearly legible, and there is broad agreement among scholars on those letters.

The stone is now held at the museum in Ballyferriter on the Dingle Peninsula, where it can be seen in person. It measures just over a metre in length and is relatively slender, around 28 centimetres wide. It has also been recorded as part of the Ogham in 3D project run by the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, which has produced detailed digital documentation of ogham stones across Ireland.