It is not a polished monument or a landscaped attraction; it is simply a large, irregular stone that someone, at some point in prehistory, decided to haul upright on an exposed summit and leave there.

The stone measures 1.9 metres in height, 0.9 metres in width, and 0.75 metres in thickness, and its long axis is aligned east-northeast to west-southwest. That orientation is unlikely to be accidental. Many standing stones across Ireland share deliberate alignments, sometimes corresponding to solar or lunar events, though the specific reasoning behind any individual example is rarely recoverable. What an ITA survey recorded in 1944 was a much-weathered, irregularly shaped block, which suggests the stone had already endured a very long period of exposure by the time anyone thought to document it formally. Limestone, being relatively soft and soluble, tends to show its age in rounded edges and pitted surfaces, and this one has had considerable time to acquire both.

The hilltop position is worth noting. Elevated placements for standing stones are common in Ireland, and the reasoning, whether territorial, ceremonial, or astronomical, is debated. What is less debatable is the effect: a stone placed on a summit becomes visible from a considerable distance in every direction, and the hill itself becomes legible in the landscape as a place that was marked, deliberately and with effort, by people who are otherwise unknown to us.