It is not dramatic by any measure of size, but it has been placed with evident intention: rectangular in both plan and section, orientated along a northeast to southwest axis, and positioned so that it looks southward over Pulleen Harbour. That combination of modest scale and deliberate placement is typical of the standing stones scattered across Cork's landscape, solitary markers whose original purpose remains genuinely uncertain. Ritual, territorial, astronomical, and funerary functions have all been proposed for such stones over the decades, and none has been settled conclusively.

The stone measures 0.4 metres by 0.28 metres at its base and stands 0.85 metres high, set into ground that is uneven and occasionally broken by natural outcropping rock. Its situation on a prominent rise suggests it was meant to be seen, or at least to mark something worth marking, in relation to the land and water below. The Gour River valley and the coastal inlet of Pulleen Harbour would have been a meaningful corridor in prehistory, as such sheltered coastal features often were, and the stone's siting above that junction of river and harbour may be more than coincidental. Whether it predates or postdates the various other prehistoric features in this part of Cork is unknown, at least from what survives about this particular stone.