That combination, an enclosure enclosing the dead and a single upright stone, is the kind of arrangement that tends to accumulate questions faster than it sheds them.

The enclosure is nearly circular, measuring 38 metres north to south and 37 metres east to west, and is defined by a stone wall running from the south around to the north-east. A road runs along its eastern edge and a driveway along the south, and the ground drops sharply by about 1.6 metres from the interior down to both of these, a drop that has been given a facing of stone at some point in recent times. There is a gap in the stone wall to the north-east, roughly 3 metres wide. In the southern half of the interior, the burial ground and the standing stone occupy the same enclosed space. Standing stones in Ireland are generally prehistoric in origin, raised during the Bronze Age or earlier, though their precise purposes remain debated; burial grounds, particularly those found within or immediately adjacent to old enclosures in the west of Ireland, often represent early medieval or later use of sites that were already ancient when the graves were dug. Whether the two features here share any meaningful relationship, or simply accumulated around the same enclosed ground across separate centuries, is not recorded.