Set into rough, peaty hill pasture on a south-east-facing rocky slope, the stone is not the kind of monument that announces itself. It measures just half a metre wide, five centimetres thick, and stands only sixty centimetres above ground, its rectangular form poking up from the deep bog that surrounds it like a marker left by someone who expected the land to stay drier than it became.

Standing stones are among the most enduring, and most enigmatic, of Ireland's prehistoric monuments. Erected singly or in loose groupings, they are generally assigned to the Bronze Age, though precise dating is rarely possible without excavation. This particular example is orientated roughly east-north-east to west-south-west, a detail that may or may not be significant; some standing stones appear to have been aligned with solar or lunar events, others seem simply to have been placed according to the lie of the land or the needs of a boundary. What is clear is that the bog has done the stone no favours in terms of visibility. The deep peat that now surrounds it has accumulated over millennia, meaning the stone's original height above the contemporary ground surface would have been considerably greater than the sixty centimetres now visible.