Scarring on its underside points to the boulder having been moved at some point, meaning the carvings have been displaced from their original context, perhaps long ago, perhaps relatively recently in geological terms. That displacement quietly complicates any reading of the site.

The markings themselves belong to a category of prehistoric carving found widely across Ireland, Britain, and Atlantic Europe, though their precise meaning and age remain debated. On the upper section of the boulder's top surface there are three or more cupmarks, simple circular depressions ground or pecked into the rock by hand. The lower section carries additional cupmarks alongside a cup-and-ring motif, in which a central depression is surrounded by a carved circular groove. Here the ring is incomplete, ending where the carved line reaches the edge of the rock's surface, either because the carver stopped at the boundary of the available stone, or because part of the surface has since been lost. The site was identified and described by Aoibheann Lambe, whose account forms the basis of what is currently known about it.