It was absent from the Ordnance Survey's six-inch mapping of 1842, which means it either escaped the surveyors' attention or was not yet visible above the ground at the time that remarkably thorough cartographic project swept across Ireland. Either possibility gives the stone an oddly elusive quality for something fixed firmly in the earth.

The stone itself is modest by the standards of prehistoric monoliths. Standing less than a metre tall, at 0.87 metres in height and roughly 0.45 metres by 0.3 metres across, it is subrectangular in plan, meaning its cross-section approximates a rectangle without being a precise one. Its long axis runs northwest to southeast, an orientation that may or may not carry prehistoric significance; many Irish standing stones share alignments that appear deliberate, though their original purpose, whether marking boundaries, commemorating burials, or serving ritual functions, remains largely a matter of interpretation. The stone sits in pasture on a gentle south-facing slope, the kind of quietly agricultural setting where prehistoric monuments have often survived simply by being too embedded to remove.