Set into pasture on an east-facing slope, it is a rectangular block standing just under a metre tall, oriented with its long axis running north to south. Modest in scale, precise in its geometry, it sits in the kind of field that most people would pass without a second glance.

Roughly 120 metres to the east stands a second standing stone, recorded separately. Whether the two were raised as a pair, as part of a broader ceremonial arrangement, or at entirely different periods is not known, but their proximity is suggestive. Standing stones, which are single upright stones set into the ground and generally associated with the prehistoric period, were erected for purposes that remain largely speculative; they have been linked to territorial markers, burial sites, astronomical alignments, and routeways. The Desert stone measures 0.89 metres by 0.46 metres at its base and reaches 0.92 metres in height, giving it a squat, considered presence rather than the imposing scale of better-known examples elsewhere in Munster. Its rectangular form and deliberate north-south orientation may be coincidental, or may reflect an intention now beyond recovery.