Whether it was overlooked, considered too minor, or had not yet been recognised for what it is, the stone spent the better part of two centuries absent from the official cartographic record of the landscape it occupies.

The stone itself is not a towering monolith. It is a squat, irregular boulder, roughly a metre high, about 1.2 metres along its longest axis running roughly north-northwest to south-southeast, and 0.7 metres wide. Standing stones are among the most widespread prehistoric monument types in Ireland, raised as boundary markers, ritual sites, or commemorative features, though the precise purpose of any individual example is rarely certain. What sets this one apart is partly its setting: placed on a hilltop above low-lying bogland, it commands a clear view southward toward Nephin Beg Mountain, the remote and largely trackless range that runs through the Nephin Beg wilderness. Whether that sightline was intentional, as is sometimes argued for hilltop stones elsewhere, is an open question, but the alignment is difficult to ignore.