The example at Lissadober in County Tipperary lies flat in an oval depression in the pasture, having toppled southward at some point before it was formally recorded. That hollow in the ground tells its own story: the gradual wearing away of the soil around the base, caused over years by cattle rubbing and trampling against the upright stone, until the earth could no longer hold it. What remains is a sandstone block measuring 1.3 metres in length, roughly 0.94 by 0.77 metres in cross-section, its upper end tapered to a point on the southern side. The stone contains quartz pebble inclusions, a detail that gives its surface a faintly mineral glitter in the right light.

The circumstances of its fall are readable in the ground. Small stones packed around the northern end of the stone, which would have been its base when upright, are now pinned beneath the recumbent slab, suggesting it pivoted and dropped to the south. Standing stones of this kind are a widespread prehistoric monument type across Ireland, typically associated with the Bronze Age, though their precise functions remain debated; they may have marked boundaries, burial sites, or routeways, or served purposes we can no longer recover. At Lissadober, the stone sits in broadly flat terrain alongside a large sand pit some twenty metres to the south, in countryside that opens out with good views toward the south-east, south, and west. To the north and north-east, the horizon is closed off by the rises of Curraghdobbin and Carrigadoon hills, giving the site a sense of orientation toward the more open, lower ground.