What makes it quietly peculiar is not just its tilt but the evidence that someone, at some point, tried to manage it: packing stones are still visible on its western side, wedged in to keep it from going over entirely, or perhaps placed there long after it began its slow lean.

The stone is subrectangular in plan, roughly 1.3 metres tall and 1.25 metres by 0.5 metres across, with its long axis running north-northeast to south-southwest. Standing stones of this kind are a familiar feature of the Irish landscape, erected most commonly during the Bronze Age, though their precise purposes remain debated. They may have marked boundaries, burial sites, or routes across the land. What is unusual about this particular example is its absence from the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of both 1842 and 1904, suggesting it was either overlooked by surveyors on both occasions or had not yet been formally identified as an ancient monument at those times. Its omission from two successive surveys across more than sixty years is a small cartographic mystery in itself.