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Situated in a rough, wet, scrub-covered, secluded, steep N-facing mountain side. The monument comprises a roughly-built altar dating to the period when the Penal Laws were in force. The altar is an irregularly-shaped slab (L 0.7m; Wth. 0.42m; H 0.3m) aligned NW-SE. This is supported on its NE side by a single boulder and on both its NW and SE sides by a relatively large uprights topped by narrow, horizontally placed, packing slabs to achieve a relatively level surface . The SW side, presumably where the sacred vessels etc. were temporarily held, is left open.
NW side:
Upright stone - H 0.3m; L 0.25m; Wth. 0.25m
Slab 1 - H 0.1m; L & Wth. as above
Slab 2 - H 0.04m; L & Wth. as above
SE side:
Basal stone - H 0.25m; L 0.05m; Wth. 0.4m
Slab 1 - H 0.07m
A short distance NW is a recently-erected cairn bearing the date 1980.
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