It is not large, not dramatic, and easy to overlook entirely if you did not know to look. That, in a way, is what makes it worth attention. Standing stones are among the most common and least understood prehistoric monuments in Ireland; they were erected across thousands of years for purposes that remain genuinely unclear, ranging from territorial markers to ritual sites to simple waypoints across open ground. This one, at Middlequarter, sits quietly in that same uncertainty.

The stone is roughly rectangular when viewed from above, measuring around 0.66 metres in length and 0.3 metres in width, and oriented along a north-south axis with its peak rising toward the north. The eastern face carries a fracture, possibly the result of weathering or an old impact, though nothing in the record clarifies when or how that damage occurred. One detail that archaeologists often look for with standing stones is the presence of packing stones around the base, smaller stones used to stabilise the upright during or after erection. Here, none are visible, though the base is buried beneath a grassy hummock, so absence of evidence is not quite the same as evidence of absence. The sandstone itself is the local material of these mountains, the Knockmealdowns forming part of an east-west ridge of Old Red Sandstone running along the Tipperary and Waterford border.