The stone itself is modest by any measure, standing just 0.8 metres high, with a trapezoidal plan and a flat-topped surface roughly the size of a large book. What makes it quietly arresting is not its scale but its placement: set on a slight natural rise on a north-east-facing slope, orientated east to west, with open views stretching out to the east and north and south, while the ground climbs and closes in to the west. It sits in rough, hummocky pasture, the kind of unimproved ground that often signals long, undisturbed occupation beneath the surface.

The stone almost certainly predates the graveyard around it, and the graveyard itself may be older than it appears. Writing in 1908, the scholar Power identified this as the location of an early church site, a category of place that in Ireland typically refers to the small monastic or ecclesiastical foundations that proliferated from the early medieval period onwards, often the sixth to ninth centuries. Such sites were frequently marked by standing stones, either pre-Christian monuments that were absorbed into later sacred landscapes, or early Christian markers in their own right. The old red sandstone from which this example is made is a distinctive geological material associated with parts of the south Tipperary region, and its trapezoidal shape, narrowing towards a flat crown, gives it a finished, intentional quality rather than the rougher profile of a simply planted field stone.