It is easy to overlook, embedded as it is into modern fabric, but the depression is the kind associated with a baptismal font, a vessel used in Christian ritual for holding water used in baptism, and its presence raises more questions than it answers.

Where exactly this stone came from is not certain. One possibility, recorded in the Ordnance Survey Name Books of 1841, is that it was originally the font visible at the eastern end of an older church at Baile an Teampaill, the settlement whose name translates roughly as "townland of the church." Another tradition, gathered from local sources and noted by Judith Cuppage in her 1986 survey of the Dingle Peninsula, suggests it may instead have been taken from the medieval church at Ballywiheen, a site some distance away. Both origins are plausible; the movement of stonework between ruined and active places of worship was common as older churches fell out of use and their salvageable fabric found new homes. What the stone represents, in either case, is a fragment of early ecclesiastical life on this stretch of coastline, quietly relocated and set into a wall where it has been waiting, largely unnoticed, ever since.