The original stone has split into two close-set upright slabs, their long axes running parallel on a NW to SE orientation, separated by a gap of just 0.2 metres, partly filled in now with soil and loose stones. The result is something slightly uncanny: a megalith that has quietly doubled itself, the two halves still upright and broadly aligned, as if the split were almost orderly.

Standing stones are among the most numerous and least understood prehistoric monuments in Ireland, raised most likely during the Bronze Age for purposes that remain genuinely unclear, whether to mark boundaries, burial sites, astronomical alignments, or something else entirely. This one sits in undulating pasture with Nephin Mountain filling the skyline to the south-southwest, a presence that would have been just as commanding when the stone was first raised. The north-western of the two slabs stands 1.7 metres high and 1.9 metres wide, remaining perfectly vertical. The south-eastern slab is slightly shorter at 1.25 metres but a little broader at 2.02 metres, and leans gently to the south-east, as though slowly conceding to whatever force split it from its other half. Both slabs are relatively thin, the north-western measuring 0.3 metres through and the south-eastern 0.35 metres at its base, suggesting the original stone was a wide, flat slab rather than a tall narrow pillar.