What makes this particular spot quietly strange is the suggestion that the boulder was not merely a canvas but a structural element: the southern face of the stone appears to form one straight wall of a hemispherical hollow in the ground immediately beside it, roughly six metres east to west and three metres north to south, that may once have served as a dwelling.

The boulder is a glacial erratic, meaning it was carried to its present position by ice during the last glacial period and left behind when the ice retreated, far from the bedrock it originally belonged to. This one is roughly square in plan, standing up to 1.75 metres high on its southern and western sides and about a metre high to the north. Aoibheann Lambe, who identified and described the site in March 2023, noted that the rock art is inscribed on the upper surface, though the eastern portion of that surface is now buried under peat and vegetation. The possible hut site curving away to the south, with the boulder forming part of its northern boundary, raises the intriguing possibility that whoever made or used this place saw the erratic as a ready-made feature to incorporate into a structure rather than something simply to be carved and left alone. Whether the rock art and any habitation were contemporary with one another is not yet established.