That act of practical recycling very nearly erased an early medieval text entirely. What survives today, now held in Dublin, is two fragments of what was once a single ogham stone, its ancient script reduced to tantalising shards of letters: on the first fragment, the partial sequence CCI MAQ, and on the second, the remnant INI, with gaps where the stone was smashed away. Ogham is an early Irish alphabet, typically carved as a series of notches and strokes along the edge or face of a standing stone, most often recording a personal name in the formula "X son of Y". The word MAQ, visible here, is the ogham form of the Irish word for "son", which tells us the inscription almost certainly followed that pattern. What the names actually were, we cannot say.

The stone was found in the neighbourhood of Baltinglass, in County Wicklow, where a related site is also recorded. It was catalogued by the scholar R.A.S. Macalister in 1945, appearing as number 49 in his monumental survey of Irish ogham stones, and later referenced by Grogan and Kilfeather in 1997. The deliberate breaking of ogham stones for use in construction was not unusual; such stones, often standing in fields or at boundaries, were convenient sources of dressed or worked stone when a farmer or builder needed material. The inscription on this particular stone was carved into granite, which is harder to work with than the sandstone more commonly used for ogham monuments, making the loss to quarrying all the more notable. The two fragments now in Dublin have more recently been documented as part of the "Ogham in 3D" project run by the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, which uses digital scanning to record surviving ogham inscriptions in detail.

The stone is currently located in Dublin South City, now catalogued under the National Museum collection and accessible through the Ogham in 3D database online, where the digital record compiled by Nora White allows anyone to examine the surviving epigraphy in close detail. Visitors hoping to see the physical fragments should check current display arrangements with the National Museum of Ireland directly, as accessibility can vary. The online record at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies website offers a practical alternative, with the 3D scan preserving what the eye might otherwise struggle to read on a worn granite surface. The partial MAQ and the fragmentary INI are modest survivals, but they are enough to confirm that this stone once named someone whose identity is now lost to the wall it became.