The stone at An Droim Réidh in County Cork stood through the entire mapping exercises of 1842 and 1904 without appearing on either survey, which is a quietly remarkable omission for something nearly two metres tall.

The stone itself is subrectangular in plan, meaning roughly rectangular with softened or irregular edges, and measures 1.8 metres in height with a face of roughly 0.65 metres by 0.25 metres. Its long axis runs northeast to southwest, an orientation that may or may not be deliberate but which is common enough among prehistoric standing stones to invite speculation. What makes its setting particularly interesting is that it sits within the eastern half of what appears to be a cashel, a type of stone-walled circular enclosure associated with early medieval settlement and farming in Ireland, though the cashel here is described as a possible one, meaning its identification remains uncertain. The combination of a standing stone, which typically belongs to the prehistoric period, with a possible early medieval enclosure suggests either a long sequence of use at this spot or a deliberate choice by later inhabitants to settle near an already ancient marker in the landscape.