At just under a metre and a half tall and only thirty centimetres wide, it is not the kind of monument that announces itself dramatically. What makes it quietly interesting is not the stone alone but what surrounds it: a line of slabs running southward for nearly six metres, with further collapsed slabs to the east forming what appears to be a rectangular channel roughly a metre and a half across.

The upright is aligned east to west, a orientation that appears in standing stones across Ireland and is sometimes associated with solar or ritual significance, though the exact purpose of any individual stone is rarely certain. The accompanying line of slabs and the possible channel beside it add a layer of complexity. Whether the channel is the result of human arrangement or a natural formation in the landscape is an open question; Michael J. Moore, who catalogued the site in the Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim published in 2003, noted it as "perhaps natural". That uncertainty is itself characteristic of many such sites, where the boundary between deliberate prehistoric construction and the slow reshaping of the land over millennia is genuinely difficult to read.