The effect looks deliberate, almost decorative, but it is entirely accidental: the lines are natural faults running through the stone itself. It is the kind of detail that rewards close inspection, the geology mimicking the hand of a carver.

The stone is a subrectangular upright, roughly 1.46 metres tall and 0.9 metres wide, tapering to a point and aligned on a roughly north-north-east to south-south-west axis. It leans slightly to the west-north-west. The burial mound it stands on is modest in scale, measuring about 14.5 metres east to west and 10.2 metres north to south, and survives as a low rise in the ground. Writing in 1942, a researcher named Moran noted the diamond patterning on the western face, apparently reading it as worked decoration before the natural explanation was established. A few metres to the north-east, near the centre of the mound, stands a second stone, a cross-inscribed pillar. The presence of both a prehistoric standing stone and a cross-marked pillar within the same burial ground points to the kind of layered, long-term use of sacred sites that is common across Ireland, where early Christian communities often adopted and adapted places already understood to carry significance. The site is a National Monument in State ownership.