Just over a metre tall and roughly a metre wide, it sits in rough grazing land, irregular in outline, its long axis running northwest to southeast. That orientation is worth pausing over: standing stones across Ireland are frequently aligned along astronomically or topographically significant axes, though whether any such logic governed this particular stone's placement is no longer recoverable.

Standing stones as a class of monument are notoriously difficult to date precisely. Most in Ireland are thought to belong broadly to the Bronze Age, erected somewhere between roughly 2500 and 500 BC, though some may be later. Their purposes are debated: boundary markers, ritual focal points, commemorative stones, or something else entirely. The Leckaneen example is modest in scale compared to some of the more elaborate examples in Cork and Kerry, but its survival in open grazing land, exposed to centuries of agricultural activity, is quietly notable. The stone measures approximately one metre by half a metre in cross-section, giving it a broad, somewhat flattened profile rather than the narrow blade shape seen at other sites.