That kind of absence is itself quietly telling. The surveyors who criss-crossed this part of Mid Cork were generally thorough, which raises the question of whether the stone was simply overlooked, or whether it was already so unremarkable in its setting, so much a part of the working landscape, that no one thought to mark it down.

The stone itself is modest but deliberate. It stands 1.3 metres high, roughly rectangular in plan, and measures about one metre by 0.4 metres at its base. Its long axis runs east to west, a detail that may or may not carry prehistoric significance; many standing stones across Ireland are oriented in ways that suggest an awareness of solar movement, though any specific purpose here remains unknown. It sits on a south-facing slope, the kind of position that would have been valued for grazing and cultivation for thousands of years. Standing stones of this type are generally associated with the Bronze Age, though they are notoriously difficult to date without excavation, and their original function, boundary marker, ritual site, memorial, remains a matter of reasonable debate rather than settled fact.