The stone at Kilclogh in County Cork was absent from both the 1842 and the 1903 OS six-inch maps, which means that for well over a century of systematic surveying, it went unrecorded by the people whose job it was to record such things. It sits on a south-east-facing slope in rough grazing land, which perhaps explains something: places like this, unremarkable to a passing surveyor with a broader landscape to capture, can slip through the documentary net with surprising ease.

The stone itself is modest but deliberate in its dimensions. It stands 1.25 metres high, with a rectangular plan measuring roughly 1.04 metres by 0.5 metres, and its long axis is oriented ENE to WSW. Standing stones of this kind are a familiar presence across the Cork landscape, raised during prehistory for purposes that remain genuinely uncertain, whether as territorial markers, ritual focal points, or elements of a now-vanished ceremonial geography. What makes this one of mild interest is precisely the combination of its plainness and its obscurity: it was not dramatic enough to attract early cartographic attention, yet substantial enough to have survived intact on open grazing land, where agricultural improvement has claimed many comparable stones elsewhere.