It was moved from its original position around 1983, which means it has been recumbent for longer than some adults have been alive, and its recorded coordinates now point to two separate locations: where it stands officially, and where it used to stand. The stone measures 1.5 metres in length, with a cross-section of roughly 0.68 by 0.42 metres, and it sits in pasture on a south-facing slope, watched over by nobody in particular.

Standing stones are among the most common yet least understood monuments in the Irish countryside, typically dating to the Bronze Age but often impossible to date precisely without associated finds or excavation. What makes this one slightly harder to pin down is that it appears nowhere on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of either 1842 or 1904, which might suggest it was already displaced, forgotten, or simply overlooked by surveyors at the time. A researcher named Bowman, writing in 1934, recorded up to three standing stones in Knocknacurragh, each on a different landholding. One was on C.M. O'Connor's land, described as 2 feet 2 inches high; another on T. O'Sullivan's, measuring 3 feet 1 inch with an 87-inch girth; and a third on P. O'Donoghue's, 2 feet 9 inches high with a girth of 7 feet 11 inches. The stone lying by the fence today may be one of those three, though which one, and what happened to the others, remains unclear.