It is not especially tall, nor dramatically shaped, but it does not stand entirely alone in its strangeness: two further standing stones have been recorded in the same townland, making Dysert something of a quiet concentration of prehistoric monuments in an otherwise unremarkable stretch of farmland.

All three stones were noted by a researcher named Bowman in 1934, recorded in a paper that placed them together as a related group within the townland. Standing stones, as a category, are among the most enigmatic survivals of prehistoric Ireland. Erected during the Bronze Age in most cases, their original purposes remain genuinely unclear, with theories ranging from boundary markers and ritual focal points to aids in astronomical observation. This particular stone, measuring roughly 1.1 metres by 0.6 metres at its base and oriented with its long axis running north to south, sits in a working pasture, which means it has survived not through formal protection but simply by enduring, as so many of these stones have, alongside generations of farming activity.