Those packing-stones are now exposed at ground level, giving the monument an oddly unfinished look, as though the builders only just left.

The stone itself is 1.7 metres tall and roughly a metre wide by 0.6 metres thick, oriented with its long axis running northeast to southwest. Standing stones of this kind are a familiar, if still poorly understood, feature of the Irish landscape. They date most commonly to the Bronze Age, though some may be earlier or later, and their original purposes remain debated: boundary markers, ritual focal points, memorials, astronomical alignments. This particular stone offers no obvious answers, sitting quietly in its field with the same orientation as hundreds of others across Munster, facing the setting sun on a slope that would have been visible from some distance.