Measuring roughly 1.1 metres tall and just 15 centimetres wide, the stone is confidently engraved with the words "BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE BARONIES OF FERMOY AND CONDONS TOWNLAND OF CLOUGH PARISH OF LITTER". The problem is that, by every available measure, it is almost certainly in the wrong place.

Baronies were the principal administrative subdivisions of Irish counties, used for centuries to organise everything from land taxation to local governance. This stone was presumably cut to mark the line between Fermoy barony and Condons and Clangibbon barony in north County Cork. Yet the stone currently stands roughly 500 metres inside the barony of Condons and Clangibbon, well east of where the actual boundary between the two baronies runs. The barony of Fermoy lies to the west. The inscription also names the Parish of Litter, which does indeed sit within Fermoy barony with its eastern edge defined by that very barony boundary, lending some coherence to the original purpose of the stone. The townland of Clough, however, presents a different puzzle: no such townland appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of the area, leaving that part of the inscription unverifiable. Taken together, the geographic contradictions point strongly to the stone having been moved at some point, set into its present wall perhaps as a convenient piece of dressed stone, its original meaning half-forgotten by whoever repositioned it.