Locally it is called the Lady Stone; locally it is also called the Earl's Chair. The stone itself is modest, under a metre tall and roughly rectangular in section, set into a stony base on a northeast-to-southwest ridge and aligned north-south with quiet deliberateness. What gives it an added layer of strangeness is the belief attached to it: that a woman named Nora Novar, credited in local memory with building the townland boundary wall, is buried beneath or beside it. A standing stone repurposed, or perhaps always understood, as a grave marker is not unheard of in Ireland, but the specificity of the attribution here is unusual.

The stone sits within a landscape that rewards attention. Roughly 135 metres to the north-northwest and 455 metres to the north-northeast, two ringforts are visible from the hillock. Ringforts, the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, are common enough across the country, but their proximity here is part of a larger pattern: all three monuments fall within the northern half of a medieval deerpark, a managed enclosure used by a lord or estate for keeping deer. Deerparks are frequently overlooked as a category of monument, tending to be associated with high-status medieval landowners and marking out considerable stretches of ground. That the standing stone, with its prehistoric character, sits alongside these later features inside such a boundary speaks to how landscapes accumulate meaning across centuries. The stone was formally identified and recorded by Dr F. Beglane in November 2014, and its local names suggest it had long been known and interpreted by people in the area, each name preserving a different instinct about what it was for.