Only its edge breaks the surface, visible in the cut face of a turf working, with roughly thirty centimetres of uncut bog pressing down above it. The slab measures two metres in length and just twenty centimetres in width, and the working interpretation is that it may once have stood upright, a prostrate standing stone that toppled or subsided at some point in the centuries since it was raised.

Standing stones are among the most common and least understood monuments in the Irish landscape. Erected mostly during the Bronze Age, they served purposes that archaeologists continue to debate, whether as territorial markers, points on routeways, sites of ritual, or memorials. What makes this particular example quietly compelling is how thoroughly the bog has claimed it. The process is not unusual in the west of Ireland, where blanket bog has been slowly accumulating for thousands of years, gradually engulfing field walls, fulacht fiadh cooking sites, and occasionally the stones that earlier communities took considerable effort to raise. Paul Gosling documented the site in the Archaeological Inventory of County Galway, published in 1993, and the tentative language of that record, "possibly a prostrate standing stone", reflects how little can be confirmed when a monument is this deeply obscured.