That partial text, rendered in ogham, the early medieval Irish script in which letters are represented by notches and strokes cut along a central stem line, reads only …U MAQI CUMOGODUU MUCO… The words trail off at both ends, the rest lost to a break in the stone itself.

The stone is one of seven ogham stones that originated at Kilgrovan, an early ecclesiastical site in County Waterford. The group was evidently dispersed at some point, because five of the seven ended up at Mount Melleray Abbey, also in Waterford, while two were brought to Dublin and are now held by the National Museum of Ireland. This particular example, catalogued as WA031-045008-, measures 0.98 metres by 0.42 metres by 0.13 metres, with a portion broken away. The surviving inscription was noted by Damian McManus in his 1997 study of ogham, where it is recorded on page 73. More recently the stone has been included in the Ogham in 3D project, an ongoing initiative by the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, which uses digital scanning to record and make accessible the corpus of surviving ogham stones across Ireland.

The stone is held by the National Museum of Ireland, whose main archaeology collections are displayed at Kildare Street in Dublin city centre. Visitors interested in the digital record of this stone, including its scanned surface and epigraphic analysis, can consult the Ogham in 3D database directly at ogham.celt.dias.ie, where it is listed under the reference Kilgrovan VI. The partial formula MAQI, meaning "son of" in Primitive Irish, is a common construction on ogham stones and gives some sense of what the full inscription likely commemorated, even if the names on either side of it here are only partly legible.