What makes the spot quietly arresting is not the stone alone but what lies beside it: a prostrate slab, nearly the same length as the upright stone is tall, resting flat on the southern side. Whether the slab fell at some point in the distant past, or was always intended to lie horizontal, is not recorded.

Standing stones are among the most common, and most enigmatic, prehistoric monuments in Ireland. They were erected, in most cases, during the Bronze Age, though their precise purposes remain debated; some appear to mark boundaries or routeways, others may be funerary or ritual in function, and many seem to have been placed in alignment with solar or lunar events. This stone's long axis runs east to west, an orientation sometimes associated with such astronomical or ceremonial thinking, though it would be speculative to assign a firm purpose here. The stone itself is irregular in plan, meaning it has no uniform cross-section, which is typical of these monuments; the preference was evidently for locally sourced, naturally shaped material rather than anything dressed or worked into regularity. The accompanying prostrate slab measures 1.7 metres in length and is comparatively slender, around twelve centimetres thick, lying close to the southern face of the upright.