The stone is a fragment of ogham, the early medieval Irish script in which letters were encoded as a series of notches and strokes cut along the edge of a stone, typically to record a personal name or a lineage. What makes this particular example quietly striking is precisely how much has been lost: the surface has eroded and spalled so severely that whole sections have simply vanished, and what remains sits at the threshold between meaning and noise.

The stone was uncovered during archaeological works in 1995 and subsequently transferred to Kerry County Museum for safekeeping. It is a roughly square-sectioned pillar, tapering toward the top, and its condition tells its own story of exposure and time. The sinister side, to use the technical term for the left-hand edge of an ogham stone as it is read, has been worn entirely smooth. On the dexter, or right-hand, angle, close to the top of the stone, a sequence of scores can still be made out with care. Specialist Fionnbarr Moore has proposed a tentative reading: two strokes for G, then two more for G, then a significant gap in the record, followed by what appears to be D, IOC, five faint strokes for Q, and three vowel notches that may represent U. The sequence, rendered as G G………..DIOC Q U, does not resolve into a legible word or name as it stands. It is possible that the missing section once contained the key to the whole inscription, or that further wear has made reconstruction impossible. Either way, the stone remains an authentic remnant of early Irish literacy, fragmentary and unresolved.