This particular example, sitting on a NNW-SSE ridge near Ballylin in County Galway, is not especially tall, measuring 1.35 metres in height with a base width of 1.15 metres, but its pronounced tilt gives it a presence that a more upright slab might lack. The ridge itself has been stripped of topsoil along a NE-WSW axis, which leaves the stone exposed in a way that emphasises its orientation, aligned NE-SW, roughly rectangular in plan.

Standing stones are among the most common yet least understood monuments in the Irish landscape, most likely dating to the Bronze Age, though the purposes assigned to them range from boundary markers to ritual focal points to astronomical alignments. What is more legible here is the physical evidence of how the stone was originally set. Packing stones, small rocks wedged around the base to secure a standing stone in its socket, are visible at both the east and west faces, suggesting a deliberate and careful erection rather than a casual placement. The record, noted by McCaffrey in 1952, also mentions that some topsoil has been dumped within 20 metres of the stone, a reminder that agricultural activity has shaped and reshaped the ground around these ancient features long after whoever raised them had gone.