At 3.65 metres long and nearly 1.75 metres wide, it is a substantial object, the kind of monolith that would have been conspicuous in the landscape when vertical. Standing stones are among the most enigmatic survivors of prehistoric Ireland, erected most commonly during the Bronze Age for purposes that remain genuinely unclear, whether as territorial markers, astronomical indicators, or focal points for ritual activity. This one is no longer standing at all.

The fallen stone sits roughly 30 metres north-west of another standing stone in the same townland, suggesting the two were once part of a related arrangement. What makes this particular stone more than just a collapsed monolith is a detail recorded at its northern end: a hole beneath it, identified as a possible socket. A socket is the cut or hollowed feature in bedrock or subsoil into which the base of a standing stone was originally set to keep it upright. If this interpretation is correct, the stone has not simply toppled from some other location but fell more or less where it was erected, and the evidence of how it was anchored in place survives beneath it. That detail, passed on by researcher Paul Walsh, quietly transforms what might otherwise read as a straightforward collapse into something more suggestive of original intention and the slow mechanics of time.