It is rough-surfaced, oriented east to west, and measures around two metres in that direction, a metre in height, and about sixty centimetres thick. Whether it qualifies as a standing stone in the formal sense remains uncertain; the classification on record is cautious, listing it only as a possible example of the type. Standing stones are among the most common and least understood monuments in the Irish countryside, single upright stones erected during prehistory for purposes that might have included burial markers, boundary indicators, or ceremonial functions, though the evidence rarely settles the question.

The stone came to wider attention not through dedicated fieldwork but as a by-product of planning. It was noted during an archaeological survey carried out in advance of a proposed Buttevant bypass, the kind of infrastructural assessment that has, over the decades, added considerably to what is known about the archaeological landscape of rural Ireland. O'Rahilly, writing in 1994, recorded the stone's dimensions and surface character, and it was subsequently included in the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, Volume 4, covering the north of the county and published in 2000. The Awbeg River, running nearby, is the same modest waterway that flows through Spenser's Faerie Queene under the name Mulla, lending even the surrounding terrain a faint literary shadow, though the stone itself predates that association by a considerable margin.