The stone is modest in size, roughly a metre and a half long and just under half a metre high, but its upper face carries a series of incised linear markings of varying length and depth, scored into the rock by what appears to have been the repeated rubbing of something sharp or pointed. The technique is sometimes called rock scribing, a loose term for these kinds of deliberately worked grooves that resist easy classification as art, inscription, or practical tool-sharpening.

What makes the location quietly compelling is the view it commands. Looking south-east from the stone, the twin rounded summits of The Paps of Dana rise on the horizon, a pair of hills long associated in Irish tradition with Danu, a mother goddess figure, and with the mythological Tuatha Dé Danann. Whether or not that connection was meaningful to whoever made these marks is impossible to say, but the alignment is not easy to dismiss entirely. Adding further weight to the site is the proximity of a rath, a circular earthwork enclosure of the kind typically built as a farmstead or defended homestead during the early medieval period, situated roughly five metres to the west-north-west of the stone. The clustering of features in this small area suggests a landscape that was, over a long span of time, repeatedly chosen for human activity.