The stone itself is subrectangular, measuring just over a metre in height and relatively thin at roughly ten centimetres, and it sits aligned along an east-northeast to west-southwest axis. That orientation is not uncommon in prehistoric standing stones across Ireland, where alignments with solar or lunar events have long been debated by archaeologists, though no definitive explanation applies universally.

What gives this particular stone its quiet strangeness is its situation. Rather than standing alone in open ground, as so many of its kind do, it has been incorporated into the wall of a hut site that lies to its south-southeast. Standing stones, which were erected as solitary upright slabs during the prehistoric period and served purposes that may have included territorial marking, ritual, or commemoration, occasionally end up reused in later construction. Here, someone building or repairing a field wall or hut enclosure simply made use of what was already there, whether out of convenience or with some awareness of its age. The pasture around it opens northward with what are described as commanding views, which may or may not have mattered to whoever first drove the stone into the ground, but which certainly suggests the site was chosen with some deliberateness.