That survey was extraordinarily thorough across Ireland, recording field boundaries, ruins, and individual antiquities with unusual care. A stone standing 1.43 metres tall on an open south-facing slope is not easy to miss. Whether it was simply overlooked, or whether it was erected or re-erected after the surveyors passed through, remains unknown.

The stone itself is subrectangular in plan, roughly 1.6 metres by 1.1 metres at its base, and sits in pasture on a gentle southward slope. Beside its south-eastern face, a loose scatter of smaller stones has accumulated over time, the kind of informal deposit that often builds up around field monuments as farmers clear ground and find the stone a convenient place to dump what the plough turns up. Whether any of those loose stones are connected to an original setting around the standing stone is unclear. Standing stones of this type are found across County Cork and throughout Ireland, and while some were erected in the Bronze Age as markers, memorials, or boundary indicators, the exact purpose of any individual example is rarely certain.