It now lies prostrate in a slight depression in improved pasture, measuring 2.3 metres along the ground, on a hillside with moderate views out over the low-lying ground to the east and west-northwest. Standing stones are among the most enduring and least understood monuments in the Irish landscape, erected during prehistory for purposes that remain largely a matter of speculation, yet this one did not even make it onto any Ordnance Survey historic mapping, meaning it slipped through centuries of cartographic record entirely unnoticed.

The stone was formally identified and recorded in 2004, at which point it was still upright, standing at 2.04 metres tall. Even then, the signs of instability were latent in its dimensions: the subsurface base extended only 0.26 metres below ground, which is notably shallow for a stone of its height and considerable thickness at the base, around 0.9 metres wide and 0.12 metres thick at its broadest point, tapering to just 0.21 metres wide and 0.10 metres thick at the top. The stone itself is irregular in profile rather than cleanly shaped, and its surface carries natural solution marks, the shallow pitting and channelling that form over long periods through the slow dissolving action of rainwater on certain rock types. Moss growth observed at the base when the stone was later found on the ground suggested it had fallen not long after that 2004 visit. Local accounts hold that it went down of its own accord, and the likely explanation points to cattle repeatedly treading the soft ground around the base and rubbing against the stone, gradually working it loose until it toppled.