It rises only 1.35 metres from the ground, modest by the standards of prehistoric monuments, yet its proportions are precise enough to suggest deliberate intent: a trapezoidal cross-section, between 0.25 and 0.5 metres wide, tapering to a pointed top that is oriented along a northeast-southwest axis.

The stone sits roughly 270 metres south of the Mine River, on the valley floor through which that river runs from west to east. Granite is not unusual as a material for standing stones across Ireland, but its placement low in a river landscape, rather than on an exposed ridge or hilltop where such monuments are more commonly found, gives this one a slightly anomalous character. Standing stones as a monument type date broadly to the Bronze Age in Ireland, though precise dating for individual examples is rarely possible without excavation. They served a range of purposes across different sites, from burial markers to territorial indicators, and some appear to have astronomical alignments. Whether the northeast-southwest orientation of this stone's pointed top was intentional in that sense is not recorded.