The stone, measuring 1.6 metres tall, 0.9 metres wide, and 0.6 metres thick, now lies on its side beside a field boundary, a quietly melancholy state for something that was almost certainly erected to be seen upright, visible across open ground, marking something, whether a boundary, a burial, or a point of significance in a landscape that has long since been reorganised into agricultural fields.

Standing stones are among the most common yet least understood monuments in the Irish countryside. Erected predominantly during the Bronze Age, though some date earlier or later, they tend to resist interpretation. Their purposes likely varied, and without associated finds or excavation it is rarely possible to say more than that someone, at some point, thought it worth the considerable effort of raising a large block of stone and keeping it upright. This particular stone at Slieveroe was recorded through local information passed on by S. O'Mahony, and by the time that account was made, the stone had already fallen. It lies now where it landed, or perhaps where it was pushed, beside a field boundary that may itself be centuries old or may be entirely modern.