The structure in question is a possible boulder-burial, a type of prehistoric monument found mainly in Cork and Kerry in which a substantial capstone is set low over a small burial space, sometimes resting directly on the ground or on minimal supports. The uncertainty around this particular example is part of what makes it worth noting; it has never been fully confirmed as a monument, and sits in the archaeological record as a question rather than an answer.

The boulder measures 2.2 metres by 1.3 metres and lies approximately 3.5 metres to the east of a confirmed boulder-burial at the same site. That neighbouring monument, better documented, anchors this second stone in a broader prehistoric context. The pairing was noted by Seán Ó Nualláin in a 1988 study and subsequently included in the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, published in 1992. Whether the proximity of the two boulders reflects a deliberate arrangement, perhaps two monuments serving the same funerary or ritual purpose, or whether one is simply a large displaced stone that happened to settle near an actual burial monument, has not been resolved.