That detail, understated as it is, carries a certain weight. Standing stones were erected across Ireland during the Bronze Age, likely serving as territorial markers, ritual focal points, or elements of a broader ceremonial landscape, and most discussions of them imagine the stones upright. This one, measured and catalogued in its horizontal state, prompts a quieter kind of attention.

The stone is wedge-shaped, tapering from a broad, roughly rectangular end measuring 1.05 metres by 0.89 metres down to a narrower profile of 0.42 metres by 0.12 metres, with an overall length of 2.42 metres. That taper is worth noting. Many standing stones in the region were deliberately shaped or selected for a wedge form, with the wider end planted in the ground and the narrower end pointing skyward, which may have had cosmological significance or simply made for a more stable erection. Whether this stone was ever successfully raised, or fell in antiquity or more recently, is not recorded. It sits in ordinary flat pasture, which offers no dramatic clues from the landscape itself.