The stone is 2.4 metres tall and roughly subrectangular in plan, meaning its cross-section is broadly oblong rather than irregular or tapered. Its long axis runs ENE to WSW, an orientation that may or may not carry significance; standing stones across Ireland are frequently aligned with solar or lunar events, though whether that applies here is unrecorded.

What gives the site an additional layer of interest is its proximity to a ringfort located about 30 metres to the northwest. A ringfort is a circular enclosure, typically defined by an earthen bank and ditch, used as a farmstead or settlement during the early medieval period, roughly from the fifth to the twelfth century. Standing stones, by contrast, are generally considered prehistoric, often associated with the Bronze Age, which would make the stone considerably older than its neighbour. Whether the people who built or used the ringfort were aware of the stone as something ancient and meaningful, or simply treated it as a convenient boundary marker, is the kind of question the landscape raises without answering. The two monuments sitting in such close company, each from a different period of Irish prehistory and early history, quietly complicates any tidy narrative about who was here and when.