It was found at Kilmacaran, a site in a small hollow beside the River Annalee, where the ground suggests the presence of an early church, though little else remains to confirm it. The stone itself is clearly a remnant, the surviving portion of what was once a longer slab, and its decoration survives on one face only: groups of six-petalled rosettes enclosed in circles, a motif associated with early medieval stoneworking in Ireland. Of the original pattern, only one complete rosette and one half rosette can still be made out.

The stone was identified and recorded by Barron, writing in the Ulster Journal of Archaeology in 1942, who noted both its dimensions and the delicacy of the incised work. The site at Kilmacaran is catalogued separately under the reference CV 023-02501, indicating a location that archaeologists have flagged as a possible early ecclesiastical enclosure, the kind of modest, often unenclosed site that preceded the more formal church buildings of later centuries. Early church sites of this type frequently survive only as subtle changes in field boundaries, slight rises in ground level, or, occasionally, through the stones that were once part of their fabric.

The stone itself is no longer at Kilmacaran. Visitors interested in seeing it would need to head to the National Museum of Ireland rather than seek it out in the field. Those who do make it to the Annalee valley and the general area of Kilmacaran will find a quietly unremarkable landscape that gives little away about what Barron documented there in the early 1940s. The value of the fragment lies partly in its modesty: a piece of sandstone that was not wide to begin with, carved with a repeating pattern that someone took care over, and which survived long enough to be written down.