Ogham is an early medieval script, most often found carved along the edges of upright stones, in which the letters are represented by notches and strokes cut across a central stemline. The stones were used primarily to mark burials or territorial boundaries, and the majority of surviving examples are concentrated in Munster and along the western seaboard, making any Connacht cluster worth noting.

The association between these two stones and the nearby platform earthwork, a raised, roughly circular area of ground that typically indicates the site of a former settlement or dwelling, suggests that this corner of Sligo carried some local significance in the early medieval period. Whether the stones were originally raised here or were moved to their present position at some point is not recorded, but their proximity to one another and to the earthwork gives the site a quietly layered quality, where different forms of early medieval activity appear to overlap in a small area of ground.