Set on the highest point of a ridge running north-east to south-west near Parcellstown, it looks out over a marshy valley to the south-east, the kind of position that prehistoric monument-builders favoured, commanding sight lines in every direction. Whether it was ever recorded by nineteenth-century surveyors or simply overlooked by them is an open question, but it appears on neither the 1837 six-inch Ordnance Survey map nor the 1913 twenty-five-inch edition.

When the stone was described in 1983, it stood roughly one and a half metres tall, a rectangular slab modest enough in its dimensions, measuring approximately eight centimetres by six centimetres at the base. Standing stones are among the most enduring and least understood monuments in the Irish countryside, raised during the Bronze Age or earlier as markers, boundary indicators, or sites of ritual significance, their original purpose often irrecoverable. This one has had a more prosaic recent history. Cattle have long used it as a scratching post, gradually wearing its surface, and at some point a chunk broke away from the north side, leaving the top with a rough, pointed silhouette rather than the flat profile a rectangular slab would originally have presented. By the time aerial photography was examined, the stone could not be made out at all in the imagery, which may say something about its current condition, or simply about the limitations of photographing a metre-and-a-half-tall object in rough pasture from altitude.