It stands just one metre high and measures roughly 1.3 metres by 0.6 metres, irregular in shape rather than neatly dressed, with its long axis oriented north-north-east to south-south-west. What makes it quietly compelling is not any great size or drama, but rather its company: nineteen metres to the south-west stands a second standing stone, and ninety metres further in the same general direction sits a cashel, a type of circular stone enclosure that typically served as a defended farmstead in early medieval Ireland. Three monuments within a short walk of each other, distributed across the same slope, suggest that this patch of Mid Cork farmland was once a place of some significance.

Such groupings of standing stones alongside cashels are not uncommon in Cork, though their precise relationship is rarely straightforward. Standing stones in Ireland range in date from the Bronze Age through to the early medieval period, and in many cases their original purpose remains uncertain, with suggestions ranging from boundary markers and assembly points to memorials or ritual posts. The irregular, unworked form of this particular stone is typical of the simpler end of the tradition. The fact that it survives at all within actively tilled ground, rather than having been removed as an obstacle to ploughing, is itself a small piece of luck.