At 1.35 metres tall and measuring 1.3 metres by 0.7 metres at its base, it is not a towering monument, but it has an unassuming presence in the landscape, the kind of thing that rewards a careful eye more than a distant glance.

What makes this stone particularly curious is its absence from the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of both 1842 and 1904. Standing stones, which are single upright stones erected in prehistory for purposes that remain largely a matter of scholarly debate, were typically well documented by the OS surveyors of the nineteenth century, who recorded even minor field monuments with some diligence. That this one escaped notice on two separate surveys, decades apart, suggests it either lay in obscured or seldom-visited ground, or was simply overlooked on the southern flank of the mountain. It only enters the formal record through later archaeological fieldwork covering mid Cork.