The stone itself is irregular in shape, roughly 1.4 metres long and nearly a metre wide, and local tradition holds that it did not always lie flat. At some point it stood upright on the natural rise at the heart of the enclosure, a standing stone occupying the same ground later consecrated for Christian use, which is a pattern found at early ecclesiastical sites across Ireland where older ritual markers were absorbed into, rather than removed from, the new religious landscape.

The hollow in which the stone now rests is the outline of a vanished church, its walls long gone, its floor level sunken just enough to preserve the shape of what stood there. Immediately to the east of the stone lies a bullaun stone, a boulders or rock with one or more cup-shaped depressions ground into its surface. Bullauns are associated with early Christian and pre-Christian ritual use across Ireland, sometimes linked to healing, cursing, or the grinding of pigment and grain, though their precise function at any given site is rarely certain. The pairing of a prostrate standing stone and a bullaun within the same small enclosure suggests a site that accumulated significance across a considerable stretch of time, each generation leaving its own mark in stone.