The stone at Lackabane is a substantial presence in the landscape, rising 2.75 metres from the level pasture, with an irregular, roughly triangular form oriented north to south and measuring 2.2 metres by 1.1 metres at its base. In the 1930s, a Captain D. B. O'Connell recorded six small marks on the south-west face and suggested they might be ogham, the early medieval Irish script in which letters are represented by a series of notches and strokes cut along a central line, most commonly seen on upright stones from roughly the fourth to the seventh centuries. It is a tentative identification, framed cautiously even by O'Connell himself, and when the stone was later examined in an archaeological survey, no such marks were noted. Whether they had weathered away, whether O'Connell was mistaken, or whether the surveyor simply missed them, the record does not say. The question remains open, sitting quietly in a Kerry field.