Known locally as Cloch Maoláin, it rests in the field called Gort Maoláin in the townland of Coinlín, but it has not always stood where it now stands. In 1951 it was shifted roughly six metres southward from its original position on slightly higher ground, a small move in physical terms that nonetheless separates the stone from the precise spot it occupied for however many centuries before.

When the antiquary Conlon recorded it in 1918, the stone was barely above ground level, sitting only about a foot, or 0.3 metres, proud of the earth, and measuring roughly twenty inches, around half a metre, across, with a notably circular cross-section. Pillar stones of this kind, upright standing stones of uncertain but often considerable age, are scattered across the Cork landscape and tend to attract a cluster of local lore along with a local name. The name Maoláin attached to both the field and the stone hints at some older association, possibly with a personal name or a figure from local tradition, though the record does not elaborate. What the 1918 description makes clear is that even then the stone was low and worn, its profile close to the soil, the kind of ancient marker that requires a degree of attention to notice at all.