The markings appear on two adjacent east-facing slabs and divide into two groups: a southern cluster of three Tau crosses, that is, T-shaped crosses named for the Greek letter tau, each enclosed within a gable-shaped rectangle with a peaked top; and a northern group of two further gable shapes, one containing a Latin cross in false relief with a splayed base, the other offering what seems to be only the suggestion of a Tau cross. The carvings are modest in scale, the largest of the Latin cross forms measuring roughly 23 centimetres high and 12 centimetres wide, and the smallest barely 3 centimetres in either direction.

The site's identity is genuinely ambiguous. Archaeologists consider the carvings probably of recent date, which places them outside the early medieval tradition one might initially assume from the cross forms and the gable shapes, with their echo of miniature house-shrines or architectural motifs found in early Christian stonework. Yet the place itself carries older associations: there is a local tradition of a church having stood here, and the name Templebryan preserves the Irish word for church, teampall. Whether the carved stones were made by someone drawing on that sacred memory of the site, or whether they represent something more personal and harder to categorise, is not recorded. What survives is a small, unassuming set of marks on bare rock, set on elevated ground with the deliberate orientation of a face turned towards the morning light.