The stone, roughly rectangular in plan and oriented along an east-north-east to west-south-west axis, measures just 45 centimetres wide, 28 centimetres deep, and stands 48 centimetres tall. It is not a dramatic monolith, but its placement is what makes it worth attention.

The stone sits within the south-eastern quadrant of a rath, the term used for a roughly circular earthen enclosure, typically dating from the early medieval period, that once served as a farmstead or settlement. Finding a standing stone inside such an enclosure is not entirely without precedent in Irish archaeology, but it is far from the norm. Whether the stone predates the rath and was incorporated into it, or was placed there deliberately as part of the enclosure's use, is not recorded. Adding to the interest, a second standing stone lies a short distance to the north, suggesting that whatever arrangement existed here, it involved more than one element.