On the 1935 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, it was labelled as a fulacht fiadh, a type of ancient burnt mound associated with cooking or industrial water-heating, typically identified by a distinctive horseshoe-shaped spread of fire-cracked stone. The label was simply wrong. The monument is a standing stone, and the misidentification went uncorrected on that edition while the stone itself was absent from earlier OS six-inch maps entirely, which raises quiet questions about how and when it first caught official attention.

The stone is rectangular, measuring 1.1 metres in height and roughly 0.7 by 0.5 metres across, with its long axis oriented northeast to southwest. It sits on a south-facing slope, set into pasture ground. At some point in the 1930s it fell, and was subsequently re-erected, meaning the stone visible today has been handled and repositioned within living memory of the mid-twentieth century. That intervention does not diminish its age, but it does mean the current alignment, while presumably faithful to the original, carries a layer of modern human decision-making that most standing stones are spared.