For a stone standing over a metre and a half tall in open scrubland, that is a notable absence. It was either overlooked by surveyors on two separate occasions, or something about its setting made it easy to miss.

The stone itself is rectangular in plan, measuring roughly 0.59 metres by 0.99 metres at its base and rising to a height of 1.55 metres, with its long axis oriented northeast to southwest. That orientation is worth pausing on. Many Irish standing stones share a broadly northeast-southwest alignment, which has led to longstanding debate about whether such placements reflect astronomical awareness, territorial marking, or something else entirely. No certain answer exists for any individual stone, and this one is no exception. What can be said is that it sits on level ground in scrubland, which places it in a landscape that has seen relatively little intensive agricultural disturbance, the kind of context that sometimes preserves these monuments when elsewhere they have been removed or toppled. The precise date of its erection is unknown, as is typical for standing stones, which belong to a broad tradition stretching across the Bronze Age and possibly beyond.