It no longer stands upright. It is not marked on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of 1842 or 1905, which places it outside the formal cartographic record for most of the modern period. What remains is a recumbent slab of quartzite, about one and a half metres long and irregular in shape, sitting quietly in pasture on a south-facing slope.

Quartzite is a hard, metamorphic rock that would have made the stone conspicuous in the landscape, its surface likely to glint in certain lights. That visibility may partly explain the folklore that attached to it. Writing in 1934, a researcher named Bowman recorded a local tradition in which this stone, along with a companion stone nearby, came to rest in their positions after a pitched battle between two giants. The two stones were understood as a pair, the scattered debris of a superhuman contest. This kind of aetiological legend, in which giants or mythological figures explain the presence of anomalous rocks in the landscape, is well documented across Ireland and reflects the way communities made sense of prehistoric monuments whose original purpose had long been forgotten. The original standing stone, the one that was displaced, is recorded separately and lies a short distance to the north.