It is not especially tall, reaching just 1.17 metres, but its proportions are precise enough to hold attention: rectangular in plan, measuring roughly 22 centimetres by 53 centimetres, with its long axis oriented northeast to southwest. That orientation may be coincidental, or it may not be. Standing stones across Ireland were erected for purposes that remain largely unresolved, variously interpreted as territorial markers, ritual focal points, or burial indicators, and this one offers no obvious clue as to which category it belongs.

The stone may have a paper trail of sorts, though a thin one. A reference by Bowman in 1934 mentions a stone on J Murphy's farm in this same townland, and it is plausible, if not confirmed, that this is the same monument. The detail places the stone within a recognisable landscape of small farms in north Cork, and gives it at least a name and a date in the written record, even if the circumstances of Bowman's observation went unelaborated. Beyond that, the historical context is largely silence, as it is for most standing stones, which predate written record by millennia and survive not because anyone maintained them but simply because they were too awkward to move.