It is not a large monument, reaching just under two metres in height, but there is something quietly insistent about a stone that someone, at some point in prehistory, decided was worth the considerable effort of raising upright.

The stone itself is irregular in form, which is typical of the type. Standing stones, sometimes called galláin in Irish, are among the most enigmatic of prehistoric monuments: they appear across Ireland in their hundreds, erected anywhere from the Neolithic through to the early medieval period, and their original purposes remain genuinely uncertain. Theories range from territorial markers to burial indicators to astronomical alignments, and many stones were likely raised for reasons that overlapped or shifted over time. This particular example is a limestone slab, broader and roughly subrectangular at the base, where it measures around 35 centimetres across, and tapering to a narrower, sub-triangular point at the top, where the width reduces to about 23 centimetres. It sits in pastureland, which is where a great many of these survivors are found, having outlasted the field systems, settlements, and people that once gave them context.