When the Ordnance Survey carried out its first systematic mapping of Ireland in 1842, producing the detailed six-inch maps that remain invaluable to researchers today, this stone was not recorded. Whether it was overlooked, obscured by vegetation, or simply not recognised as significant at the time is impossible to say now. It stands there regardless, largely unknown.

The stone itself is substantial. At 2.14 metres tall, with a base measuring roughly a metre across and just over half a metre deep, it has a broadly subrectangular shape in plan, with its long axis running northeast to southwest. That orientation is worth noting: many Irish standing stones share a similar alignment, and while the reasons remain debated among archaeologists, connections to solar or lunar movements, territorial marking, and prehistoric routeways have all been proposed. Standing stones of this kind are generally associated with the Bronze Age, though precise dating of individual examples is difficult without excavation. They appear across the Irish landscape in considerable numbers, solitary monuments that have outlasted whatever ritual, social, or practical purpose first prompted someone to drag a large piece of stone upright and bed it into the ground. The setting here, rough grazing on a sloping field, is typical enough; many such stones survive precisely because the land around them was never improved enough to justify their removal.