The stone lies flat, set in a recumbent position on a south-facing slope of pasture, its rectangular form measuring roughly 1.3 metres long by half a metre wide. Whether it was deliberately placed this way, or toppled at some point across its long existence, is not recorded.

What makes the stone quietly puzzling is its absence from the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of both 1842 and 1903. Those maps are generally reliable recorders of prehistoric monuments, and a stone of this kind, a large shaped block oriented along a northwest to southeast axis, would ordinarily have caught a surveyor's eye. That it did not appear on either survey suggests it may have been obscured, forgotten, or simply overlooked during both mapping periods. Standing stones, as a class of monument, date broadly to the Bronze Age in Ireland, though precise dating for individual examples is rarely possible without excavation. They were placed across the landscape for purposes that remain debated, from territorial markers to ritual sites, often with alignments that may relate to astronomical events or local topography.