It is modest in scale, measuring 1.2 metres in length and roughly 0.4 metres by 0.2 metres in cross-section, rectangular in plan rather than the more irregular profiles common to many prehistoric uprights. What makes it quietly telling is a detail at its narrow end: the stone has been worn smooth there, polished not by any human hand but by generations of cattle using it as a rubbing post while it still stood upright. Lichens and mosses now colonise all its visible surfaces, suggesting it has been down long enough for slow-growing organisms to establish themselves across every exposed face.

Standing stones are among the most enigmatic survivals in the Irish landscape. Erected predominantly during the Bronze Age, though some may date earlier or later, they are often impossible to date precisely without excavation, and their original purposes remain a matter of debate. They may have marked boundaries, graves, routeways, or places of ritual significance. This particular example, now recumbent on its gentle slope, retains enough of its original character to be recognisable for what it was. The smoothed surface worn by livestock is a reminder that these stones, however ancient, have been part of working agricultural land for most of their existence, absorbed into the daily rhythms of farming long after whatever meaning first prompted their erection had been forgotten.