Cut in ogham, an early medieval script that encodes letters as notches and strokes along a central stem line, the message reads NOARRA MAQI VORUDRAN, most likely a memorial formula naming a person and their father. What makes its situation quietly odd is that this piece of early Irish epigraphy now sits not in a museum case or a university collection, but among the holdings of Adare Manor.

The stone's original resting place is itself a matter of some uncertainty. The antiquarian Richard Rolt Brash recorded it as having been found on the north side of a carn, a type of prehistoric cairn burial monument, surrounded by three concentric rings of stones. He attributed it to a townland he called Gortmaccaree, but no such townland appears to exist. The scholar R.A.S. Macalister, cataloguing the stone in his 1945 corpus of ogham inscriptions, suggested the name was likely a misreading or transcription error for Gortacreenteen. The precise dimensions Macalister recorded, four feet in length, eight and a half inches wide, and eleven inches thick, suggest a modest but well-preserved pillar, inscribed along one of its angles in the manner typical of early Irish ogham stones. The association with a cairn surrounded by multiple stone rings points to a site of some ritual or funerary significance, though the confusion over the townland name means that original context remains difficult to pin down with confidence.

The stone is now part of the collection at Adare Manor in County Limerick, the large Gothic Revival house that dominates the village. Access to the collection is not straightforward for casual visitors, as Adare Manor currently operates as a luxury hotel and golf resort, so the stone is not on open public display in the way it might be in a civic museum. Those with a particular interest in ogham epigraphy would be best advised to contact the estate in advance, or to consult Macalister's published corpus, which records the inscription in full. The surrounding village, at least, offers its own layers of monastic and medieval remains that reward a careful look.