Somewhere between a field survey conducted in 1970 and the present day, a second standing stone vanished entirely, leaving this one to mark whatever the pair once marked together.

The surviving stone is substantial: 1.9 metres tall, 0.87 metres wide, and 0.67 metres thick, and made of quartz, a material that would have caught and scattered light in a way that darker stone does not. Packing stones, the smaller rocks used to wedge and stabilise an upright in its socket, are still visible around its base, suggesting the original setting was deliberate and carefully done. The 1970 field report noted both stones standing near the edge of the rath, a ringfort of the kind that once served as an enclosed farmstead during the early medieval period in Ireland, typically defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches encircling a domestic interior. The surviving stone now sits within the eastern sector of that enclosure. Whether the two stones predate the rath and were incorporated into it, or were erected as part of the same phase of use, is not recorded. The possibility that they formed a stone pair is an open question. Stone pairs are known from other Irish prehistoric sites, where two upright stones set in alignment may have served astronomical, ceremonial, or boundary functions, though the precise purpose of any individual example is rarely certain. Here, one half of the possible pairing is simply gone, and no account of how or when it disappeared has been preserved.