At just 0.7 metres tall and less than a metre across, it is not the kind of monument that announces itself dramatically. What makes it quietly interesting is less the stone itself than what lies 23 metres to its south-south-east: a second stone, this one prostrate, lying flat on the ground. Whether the fallen stone once stood upright, and whether the two were ever intended as a pair, is the sort of question that tends to linger around sites like this.

Standing stones are among the most common and least understood prehistoric monuments in Ireland. Erected most likely during the Bronze Age, though sometimes earlier or later, they survive in their thousands across the country, and their original purposes remain genuinely uncertain. Alignment with astronomical events, boundary marking, commemoration of the dead, and ritual use have all been proposed, and for most individual stones, none can be confirmed or ruled out. The north-east to south-west orientation here is worth noting, since that axis broadly tracks the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset, a recurrence found at other Irish standing stones, though any claim of deliberate alignment at this particular site would go beyond what is currently known. The stone is described as irregular in shape, which distinguishes it from the more carefully dressed examples found elsewhere in Cork and Kerry.