It simply stands, roughly a metre and a quarter tall, its broader face aligned along a northwest to southeast axis, holding its position in a field while the landscape opens out to the north and east around it.

The stone at Curraheen is subrectangular in form, meaning it has been selected or shaped so that its cross-section is broadly blocky rather than blade-like, measuring roughly 0.98 metres by 0.91 metres at the base. Standing stones of this kind are among the most quietly ambiguous monuments in the Irish countryside. They date in most cases to the Bronze Age, though pinning an individual example to a precise period without excavation is rarely possible. Their purposes remain genuinely uncertain: boundary markers, ritual focal points, astronomical alignments, and burial indicators have all been proposed, and individual stones may have served more than one function across centuries of use. What draws attention to this particular example is the sightline it commands. The ground here gives long views to the north and east, which may or may not have been a consideration for whoever chose the spot, but which gives the stone a sense of quiet deliberateness in the landscape.