That kind of invisibility is unusual. Standing stones were recorded with reasonable diligence across Cork during both surveys, which makes this one's absence from the maps quietly puzzling rather than simply an oversight.

The stone itself is modest in scale, standing one metre high, roughly ninety centimetres wide, and thirty-three centimetres thick, with a subrectangular plan, meaning its cross-section is roughly but not precisely rectangular. Its long axis runs NNE to SSW, an orientation that may or may not have been deliberate when it was first erected, though such alignments are common enough among prehistoric standing stones to invite speculation. It sits on a south-west-facing slope, partially embedded in bog. Bogland is in many ways an ideal environment for preserving ancient features, since the waterlogged, acidic ground resists disturbance and decay, but it also means that ground-level detail can shift over centuries as peat accumulates, which may partly explain why the stone went unrecorded for so long.