It is not particularly dramatic in scale, but its proportions are precise enough to be deliberate: roughly 1.9 metres high, 1.4 metres wide, and only half a metre thick, with its long axis running east to west. That east-west orientation is characteristic of prehistoric standing stones across Ireland, and while its exact purpose remains uncertain, alignments with sunrise or sunset, or with the movements of the moon, have been proposed for comparable monuments elsewhere.

Standing stones of this kind were erected across Ireland during the Bronze Age, though some may date earlier or later, and they are notoriously difficult to date without excavation. What makes this particular stone more interesting is its immediate context. In the field to the north-east, there is a levelled ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead typically built between the early medieval period and around 1000 AD. A ringfort consists of an earthen or stone bank enclosing a circular area where a household and its outbuildings once stood. That this one has been levelled, most likely by centuries of ploughing or land clearance, means it is now invisible to a casual visitor, though it would once have been a prominent feature of the same landscape. The proximity of the two monuments, from different periods and serving entirely different functions, is a reminder of how repeatedly a single patch of ground can be claimed, used, and reshaped.