That hollow almost certainly served as a pivot socket for a gate, meaning that at some point this prehistoric standing stone was repurposed as an everyday gatepost, pressed into agricultural service by someone who either did not know or did not mind what they were working with.

The stone itself is roughly dressed limestone, relatively slender at around 25 by 21 centimetres, and it currently stands at the end of a field fence running north-east to south-west near Tyfarnham in County Westmeath. When the Ordnance Survey produced its Fair Plan map in 1837, the stone was already recorded and annotated in its earlier position, a short distance from where it sits today. The fact that it has shifted slightly from that marked spot suggests it was moved at some point in the intervening period, probably during modern field management or fencing work. It is not alone in its landscape: a ringfort, the circular earthwork enclosure used as a farmstead during the early medieval period, lies roughly 40 metres to the east, and the remains of a chapel sit around 190 metres to the south-east. Whether the stone's original placement had any relationship to those sites is unknown, but the cluster of monuments in a small area points to a stretch of land that saw sustained human activity across many centuries.