The stone itself stands 1.78 metres tall, rectangular in cross-section and slightly wider at the top than at the base, and it leans noticeably to the east. Its orientation runs roughly SSW to NNE, a alignment that may or may not be coincidental, though deliberate orientations are common enough among standing stones across Ireland to make it worth noting.

The stone is roughly shaped and shows the weathering you would expect from something that has been standing in the Atlantic air of north Clare for a very long time. Beside it, to the northeast, lies a fallen slab of similar dimensions and matching shape, which may well be a fragment broken from the standing stone at some point in its history. Together, the two pieces give the site a slightly dishevelled quality, as though something was interrupted and never resolved. The stepped barrow beneath them, recorded separately, provides the broader funerary context, suggesting this whole arrangement once formed part of a more deliberate prehistoric landscape, though precisely what ceremony or belief system placed a standing stone at the crown of a tiered mound here remains unanswered.