Standing 1.3 metres high, 0.6 metres wide, and just 0.28 metres thick, it is not a particularly imposing stone by the standards of prehistoric monuments, but its placement is considered. From where it stands, the view opens northward towards Croghan Moira, the rounded hill that anchors that part of the county, and the alignment of the stone along that same north-south corridor invites the obvious question of whether that correspondence was accidental or planned.

Standing stones are among the most enigmatic survivals of prehistoric Ireland. Erected anywhere from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age, they served purposes that remain genuinely unclear, whether as territorial markers, ritual focal points, or indicators of routes and boundaries. This particular stone came to formal attention relatively recently, reported to the National Monuments Service by a local observer, Ivor Kenny, in 2013. The Coolbawn foothills on which it stands form part of the granitic upland landscape characteristic of this part of County Wicklow, and the stone itself is of local granite, consistent with the geology underfoot.