It is not especially tall, measuring just under a metre and a half in height and roughly thirty centimetres thick, but its quiet persistence on that hillside shelf, tilted and weathered, gives it an oddly companionable presence.

What makes the stone more interesting still is that it does not stand entirely alone. Around 130 metres to the south, a second standing stone occupies the same general landscape, the two forming a loose pairing across the valley slope. Standing stones of this kind are prehistoric in origin, though their precise purpose remains debated; they have been interpreted variously as boundary markers, route indicators, ritual monuments, and burial memorials. Pairs or alignments of stones are known elsewhere in Ireland, and finding two within close sight of one another in the Wicklow uplands suggests some deliberate, if now inscrutable, relationship between them. The Little Slaney valley, cutting through granite country in the southwest of the county, provided the raw material close at hand.