What survives on the front face amounts to fragments: roughly "--/-rom/-alway", the remnant of what was once a clear and functional message, "13 From Galway". The spalling, a term for the flaking and splitting of stone caused by weathering and frost, has stripped away the upper surface all around the top of the stone, taking most of the lettering with it. What remains is more riddle than road sign.

The stone is one of nine 18th-century milestones identified along the Old Galway Road, the historic route running between Gort and Galway. Milestones of this period were typically erected to help travellers, coachmen, and postal carriers calculate distances and times along established routes, and this example follows the form well: a well-dressed trapezoidal limestone pillar, slightly wider at the rear than the front, with a gentle chamfer along the front angles. It measures 0.84 metres in height, 0.29 metres across the front face, and 0.35 metres in depth. By 1922, the Ordnance Survey six-inch map was marking it simply as "M.P.", an abbreviation for milepost, suggesting it was still a recognised landmark even then, if not necessarily a legible one. Research by the Ardrahan Heritage Group has placed this stone within a series of nine, documenting the surviving markers of what was once a well-travelled corridor through south Galway.