The stone measures just 64 centimetres by 43 centimetres, barely the size of a large book laid open, yet its decorated face places it within one of the oldest and least understood artistic traditions in Ireland.

The circles were formed by light pecking, a technique in which a harder stone is used to chip away at the surface in careful, repeated strikes, producing shallow but deliberate marks rather than deep incisions. On this particular stone, the design is quietly complex. At the top sit at least three conjoined circles, sharing their edges like overlapping rings. Below these is a single circle with a small pock mark at its centre, accompanied by a pair of conjoined circles beside it. At the bottom of the stone, another circle carries two internal pock marks. The individual circles range between nine and eleven centimetres in diameter. Rock art of this kind, a broad term for prehistoric carved or pecked decoration on stone, is found across Ireland and Britain, though its meaning and purpose remain genuinely unresolved. The presence of this example within a graveyard raises the possibility, common at other sites, that a prehistoric decorated stone was reused or incorporated into a later sacred landscape, though whether that is the case here is not established. The stone was documented by archaeologist Chris Corlett, whose 2013 publication brought it to wider attention.