It is not especially tall, reaching 1.77 metres, and its base measures roughly 1.54 metres along a northeast to southwest axis and 0.55 metres across. What gives it a quietly unsettling quality is a detail on its northeast face: a patch of damage that may represent an ancient attempt to break or remove the stone. The effort, if that is what it was, never succeeded.

The stone is thought to be local shale, a sedimentary rock common to the region, and it begins to narrow noticeably from about 0.55 metres above ground level, lending it a pointed, almost deliberate silhouette. Standing stones of this kind are prehistoric in origin, though rarely easy to date with precision; they were erected across Ireland during the Bronze Age and possibly earlier, serving purposes that remain only partially understood, from territorial markers to ritual focal points. This particular example sits within the demesne, a term for the private land attached to a country house and kept under its owner's direct management, which means its survival into the present is likely owed at least in part to that enclosed setting. It was first recorded and brought to wider attention by Ivor Kenny.