Among them, a handful carry Latin crosses with distinctive T-bar terminals, a detail that places them within a recognised tradition of early Christian memorial carving found across Ireland and western Britain. Stone no. 142 is one of five slabs bearing this particular form, the crossbar capped at each end with a small horizontal finial, giving the design something of the look of a tau cross.

The graveyard, known in Irish as Ráithín Uí Bhuaigh, sits on elevated ground at around fifty metres above sea level, sloping northward toward Dingle Harbour less than a kilometre away. A raheen, in this context, refers to a small early enclosure, often circular, that typically marks an ancient ecclesiastical or burial site; the original curving boundary of this one is still legible on the second edition Ordnance Survey map of 1896, traced in hachures. What complicates the site's legibility today is the heavy remodelling carried out by Lord Ventry in 1870. His interventions included tree planting, the construction of squared-off enclosing banks, a new roadway, an L-shaped pathway, and the addition of a family mausoleum, referred to on the map simply as "Vault". These changes effectively overlaid the older, organic form of the burial ground with the orderly geometry of Victorian estate improvement. It was not until Laurence Dunne's 2010 survey that the extent of the earlier archaeological layer became clear, with sixteen previously unrecorded cross-slabs identified within the limits of the original enclosure.