The six-inch OS maps of 1842 and 1904 both passed over this stone in Curraghnalaght, Co. Cork without acknowledgement, which means it spent the better part of recorded cartographic history as if it simply were not there.

The stone itself is modest but legible. Standing 1.27 metres tall and roughly 0.91 metres by 0.37 metres at its base, it is subrectangular in plan, meaning its cross-section approximates a rectangle with softened edges rather than a precise geometric form. Its long axis runs northwest to southeast, an orientation that may carry prehistoric significance, though the notes do not specify a period or purpose. It sits in tillage ground, approximately 100 metres south of a second standing stone, suggesting that whatever function these monuments once served, it was not entirely solitary. Paired or clustered standing stones are not unusual in the Irish landscape; they appear across many counties, sometimes aligned with each other, sometimes with features of the terrain or sky, though the relationship between this pair has not been elaborated upon in what survives about them.