Standing stones are among the most enigmatic monuments in the Irish landscape; erected during prehistory, most likely in the Bronze Age, their original purposes remain debated, with theories ranging from territorial markers to sites of ritual or astronomical significance. This one, slender at just ten centimetres thick and forty centimetres wide, is oriented roughly east-northeast to west-southwest, an alignment that may or may not be deliberate but is the kind of detail that keeps researchers attentive.

The stone sits approximately forty metres from the western bank of a north-south stream, a proximity to water that is fairly common among standing stones in Ireland and may reflect something of how prehistoric communities understood the landscape. The material itself is worth noting: green slate has a particular local character in County Wexford, and a stone shaped from it carries a quiet geological specificity. At some point these former corporation lands around Gorey were developed for educational use, and the stone passed, along with the ground it occupies, into the unlikely setting of a school site.