The six-inch OS maps of 1842 and 1904 were meticulous undertakings, cataloguing field boundaries, outbuildings, and even individual trees across the Irish landscape, so a stone missing from both surveys suggests it was either overlooked, obscured, or simply not considered significant enough to record at the time. The stone at Killinane in north Cork sits in rough grazing on a south-facing slope, and its absence from the cartographic record gives it a slightly unsanctioned quality, as though it has been keeping its own counsel for a very long time.

The stone itself is modest in scale but precise in form. Standing 1.1 metres high and roughly square in plan, measuring 0.65 metres by 0.63 metres at the base and narrowing towards the top, it is oriented with its long axis running northwest to southeast. That orientation may or may not be intentional, though aligned standing stones are not uncommon in prehistoric Ireland, where solar and lunar sightlines sometimes influenced placement. What gives the site particular archaeological interest is what lies roughly forty metres to its south-southeast: a fulacht fiadh, a type of ancient cooking site found in enormous numbers across Ireland, typically consisting of a mound of fire-cracked stone beside a trough that would have been filled with water and heated using hot stones. The proximity of the two features, a standing stone and a fulacht fiadh, is a recurring pattern in the Irish Bronze Age landscape, and it raises the possibility that the stone and the cooking site were part of the same broad episode of activity, even if no direct link can be confirmed.