Ogham is an early medieval script in which letters are represented by groups of notches and lines cut along the edge of a stone, most commonly used to record personal names in early Christian Ireland. The uncertainty over the exact number of stones at this site is itself telling: one of the group is a fragment that can no longer be located at all. When the scholar R.R. Macalister catalogued it in 1945, he could read only three letters from it, URG, which may represent the tail end of a personal name. Beyond that, the inscription is lost, possibly the stone too.

The site carries other layers of obscurity. The antiquarian Richard Rolt Brash recorded a local tradition that a church once stood on a rectangular patch of untilled ground a short distance from the cilleen, a word used in Ireland for small, informal burial grounds, often associated with unbaptised children or those excluded from consecrated ground. No physical trace of that church survives today, leaving only the oral memory of it and a slightly odd piece of undisturbed earth to suggest something was once there. The concentration of ogham stones at this single location, rare even by Kerry standards, which has one of the highest densities of such monuments anywhere in the world, points to the site having had considerable significance in the early medieval period, though the specifics are now largely unreadable, in every sense.