The site, known as Cillvickillane or Cill Mhic Uíleáin, was recorded by the antiquarian John Windele, whose 1838 sketch captured the arrangement before it was disturbed. Ogham is an early Irish script, typically carved as a series of notches and lines along the edge of a standing stone, and the Dingle Peninsula has one of the densest concentrations of such stones anywhere in Ireland.

The collection did not stay together for long. In the mid-nineteenth century, Lord Ventry removed six of the seven stones from the site. Four of them, including the stone now catalogued under this entry, were repositioned to line the driveway of Burnham House, later Coláiste Íde, a college situated between Dingle and Ventry. Two more ended up in the grounds of Chute Hall near Tralee, and only the seventh stone was left at the original location. The stone in question stands 1.16 metres high, roughly 0.34 metres wide and 0.14 metres thick. Its inscription is only partially legible, reading something like: ( )NAVICAS MAQI MUCO(I) ( )S, where MAQI is the ogham genitive of the word for son, a standard formula meaning "son of" used in commemorative inscriptions across Ireland and western Britain. The opening letters before the N are extremely faint and have been read differently by successive scholars: Windele and O'Kelly interpreted them as OD, while R. A. S. Macalister, writing in 1945, preferred G followed by R. The final word is reduced to a single surviving letter, and Macalister's proposal that it read DOVVINIAS appears to have been a conjecture unsupported by any earlier account.