It tapers from a broad base up to a narrow, flat top, measuring 1.8 metres wide at the base and standing 1.3 metres high, and it is orientated along a north-east to south-west axis. That orientation is worth pausing over: many Irish standing stones, which are prehistoric upright megaliths set deliberately into the ground, follow alignments that may relate to solar or lunar events, though the exact purpose of any individual example is rarely certain.

What the stone does offer, clearly and without ambiguity, is a carefully chosen position. It sits on a north-west-facing slope with an open view across the Mealagh River valley toward the Maughnaclea Hills. Whoever selected this spot thousands of years ago was not indifferent to the landscape around it. The reference to this stone in the archaeological record comes via Myler's 1998 survey work, later incorporated into the published inventory of Cork's prehistoric monuments. Beyond that, the biographical details of the stone itself are sparse in the way that prehistoric monuments often are: no inscription, no clear dedicatory context, just the fact of its presence and its careful shaping from wide foot to flat crown.