It is not large by the standards of prehistoric monuments, rising to around one and a half metres, but its proportions are precise enough to suggest deliberate selection: sub-rectangular in cross-section, roughly half a metre wide and a quarter of a metre thick, with its long axis oriented NNE to SSW. That alignment is not accidental. Across Ireland, standing stones, which are exactly what they sound like, single unshaped or lightly worked stones set upright into the ground in prehistory, frequently follow astronomically or geographically meaningful orientations, though whether this one was placed to mark a boundary, a burial, a route, or something else entirely is unknown.

The stone sits within farmland that has been worked around it, presumably for centuries, which is in itself a quiet detail worth noting. Tillage disturbs the ground repeatedly, yet the stone remains. Whether that continuity reflects practical inconvenience, local respect, or simple inertia is impossible to say, but standing stones across Munster have often survived precisely because they became absorbed into the fabric of a working landscape rather than being treated as monuments apart from it. No date of erection is recorded, and none could be given with confidence; most Irish standing stones are broadly attributed to the Bronze Age, though some are earlier and some later.