Standing stones are among the most common prehistoric monuments in Ireland, set upright in the landscape by communities whose exact intentions remain unclear to archaeologists, though alignment, boundary-marking, and ritual have all been proposed. What makes this one quietly notable is its absence from both the 1842 and 1904 Ordnance Survey six-inch maps, the standard cartographic record for Irish monuments of this type. Something that has stood in a field for potentially thousands of years was simply not recorded by the surveyors who passed through.

The stone itself is relatively slender. It measures 1.1 metres in height, roughly one metre in length, and just 0.15 metres across, with a subrectangular plan and its long axis oriented east-north-east to west-south-west. That orientation is worth pausing on. Many Irish standing stones show deliberate alignment, and an ENE-WSW axis could correspond to solar events at certain times of year, though without excavation or corroborating evidence specific to this site, that remains speculative. What can be said is that the stone's proportions are typical of the single standing stones found across Mid Cork, a category of monument that spans a broad chronological range and resists easy interpretation.