What makes it quietly unusual is how thinly it registers in the documentary record: it appears on only one edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, the 1908 printing, where it is noted in the characteristically cautious italic lettering that cartographers reserved for antiquities of uncertain classification. Before and after that single cartographic moment, it is largely absent from the paper trail.

When the stone was formally described in 1968, the recorder noted something worth pausing over. At the base, it has a rectangular cross-section measuring roughly 0.5 to 0.7 metres northwest to southeast and 0.35 to 0.5 metres northeast to southwest. That is a substantial, blocky footing. But the stone tapers as it rises, and by the time it reaches the top those dimensions have reduced to approximately 0.3 by 0.2 metres, and the surface there is rounded and polished. Standing stones, which are prehistoric upright stones erected singly or in loose groupings across the Irish landscape, are common enough in Meath, a county whose prehistoric density is well established. But the polished apex on this one is a particular detail, suggesting either considerable age and weathering or, less certainly, deliberate finishing at the time of erection. The plateau-edge placement, looking out over a north-facing slope, is also the kind of positioning that recurs in the siting of prehistoric monuments across Ireland, though what meaning, if any, that orientation carried remains unknown.