What sets it apart is its company. Within roughly thirty to thirty-five metres, the ground holds two other prehistoric structures: a wedge-tomb to the west and a cairn to the north. Three monuments in such close proximity suggest this was not a landscape casually marked, but one that mattered repeatedly and perhaps over a long period of time.

The stone itself is subrectangular in plan, measuring 0.8 metres in height and 0.8 metres by 0.3 metres at its face, with its long axis oriented ENE-WSW. Packing stones are still visible at its base, the small wedged fragments used by the people who erected it to stabilise the upright in the ground. This is a useful reminder that standing stones, often assumed to be simply thrust into the earth, were carefully set and supported. The nearby wedge-tomb, a type of megalithic burial monument characteristic of the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age in Ireland, broadens the picture: this corner of mid Cork was a place where the dead were marked and the landscape was structured, probably across generations.