Measuring 1.65 metres long, 0.4 metres wide, and 0.32 metres thick, the prostrate slab is, according to local knowledge, a fallen standing stone, one of those prehistoric upright monoliths whose original purpose, whether territorial marker, ritual focus, or astronomical indicator, archaeologists continue to debate. Most fallen standing stones are ambiguous, the product of gradual lean and collapse over centuries, but here the local oral record is specific: this stone once stood upright.

Standing stones are among the most enigmatic of Ireland's prehistoric monuments. Erected broadly during the Bronze Age, though some may be earlier or later, they tend to survive precisely because they are so simple, just a single shaped or unshaped stone driven into the earth. What makes the Annakisha example quietly notable is its current state. The majority of standing stones that feature in Cork's archaeological inventory are still vertical, or at least partly so. This one is entirely down, flat in the grass, its original orientation and the view it once commanded now unrecoverable. The information about its former upright condition was recorded through local communication attributed to Paul Walsh, suggesting a thread of community memory attached to the stone, even in its fallen form.