That title implies veneration, possibly centuries of it, yet the boulder itself is blunt and utilitarian in appearance: roughly square in plan, measuring around 1.1 metres north to south and 1.6 metres east to west, and standing up to 1.6 metres at its highest point. What complicates the picture is that the stone may not have always occupied this spot at all.

The working theory is that quarrying activity in the area displaced the boulder and shifted it to its current position. Holy stones and saint's stones are a recurring feature of the Irish landscape, objects or outcrops associated through local tradition with a particular saint or sacred function, sometimes used in patterns, oath-taking, or cure rituals. Whether the veneration attached to this stone predates its displacement, or whether the designation travelled with it when it moved, is not recorded. The quarrying that reshaped the outcrop may have obscured as much as it preserved, leaving a sacred object somewhat stranded at the margin of an industrial scar in the North Tipperary countryside.