The stone stands in the north-eastern quadrant of a rath, a type of circular enclosure, typically defined by an earthen bank and ditch, that served as a farmstead or homestead during the early medieval period in Ireland. Whether the stone predates the rath, was incorporated into it, or was raised at the same time remains the kind of question that the landscape does not readily answer.

The stone itself is an upright slab, 1.95 metres high, 0.67 metres wide, and 0.32 metres thick, with its long axis oriented roughly north-north-west to south-south-east. It leans slightly to the west and tapers gently towards the top, both in width and thickness, finishing in an oblique point when seen from the broad face. These proportions and the care of its orientation suggest it was shaped or selected deliberately, though for what precise purpose, whether territorial, ceremonial, or astronomical, is not recorded. What is recorded, and what gives the stone a certain unguarded quality, is the shallow depression that encircles its base. Cattle have been using it as a rubbing post, wearing the ground away around it, with a few small stones left protruding from the hollow. Across several thousand years of probable history, the most recent and most legible mark on the monument is livestock scratching an itch.