That absence from the cartographic record is itself worth pausing on: the six-inch maps, produced from the 1830s onwards, were remarkably thorough documents of the Irish landscape, and when something like this slips through, it tends to suggest the stone was either obscured, forgotten, or simply overlooked by the surveyors of the day.

When the Archaeological Survey of Ireland examined the stone in 2007, they recorded it as a single upright of sandstone, measuring 1.45 metres in height, roughly rectangular in plan, 0.4 metres wide and just 0.1 metres thick, with its long axis running WSW to ENE. That orientation may or may not be deliberate; alignment with solar or astronomical events was not unusual among prehistoric standing stones, though nothing in the survey confirms any such intention here. What the record does confirm is its immediate context: the stone sits in reclaimed pasture approximately 200 metres south-east of a ringfort, one of those circular enclosed farmsteads, typically of early medieval date, that dot the Irish countryside in their thousands. Roughly 40 metres to the south lies a well. Whether that well has any folk or religious significance is not recorded, but the pairing of a standing stone and a water source is a combination that recurs across the Irish landscape often enough to be worth noting.

The stone appears on aerial orthophotography from between 2005 and 2012, and on a Google Earth image from September 2020, so it is clearly still standing in the field. As with many such features in agricultural land, access would require landowner permission, and the ground around it is likely to be uneven or soft depending on the season. The surrounding pasture gives little visual drama; the stone is modest in scale, and the interest lies in close observation rather than any sweeping prospect. The nearby ringfort to the north-west provides useful orientation when trying to locate the stone, and anyone with an interest in the relationship between different monument types in the early Irish landscape will find the cluster of ringfort, stone, and well worth considering together.