It has been placed with some intention: oriented along a northeast to southwest axis, sitting at the highest point of a low, rounded glacial hill, in what is now open pasture. Whether that orientation reflects an astronomical concern, a boundary marker's logic, or something else entirely is not recorded anywhere. The stone simply stands, as it has stood, measuring 1.3 metres in height and roughly half a metre across.

What gives the site its quiet complexity is not the standing stone alone but its relationship to the surrounding field. To the southwest, in the same pasture, sits a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead commonly built in early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a circular earthen bank enclosing a domestic space. The two monuments are not necessarily contemporary. Standing stones in Ireland range in date from the Bronze Age onward, and a ringfort would most likely belong to the early medieval period, somewhere between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Whether the stone was already ancient when the ringfort was built nearby, or whether the two were part of the same working landscape, is the kind of question the field itself keeps open.