It rises just 1.65 metres from the pasture, subrectangular in shape and noticeably flat, measuring roughly 0.95 metres across and only 0.3 metres deep. That deliberate orientation, aligned along a northwest to southeast axis, is the detail that lifts it out of the ordinary. Standing stones across Ireland frequently follow alignments that archaeologists have long connected to solar, lunar, or landscape-based significance, though the specific reasoning behind any individual stone remains difficult to pin down.

The stone sits in open grazing land with the sea visible to the south, a position that would have made it conspicuous in the prehistoric landscape. Standing stones of this type are among the most enduring, and least understood, monuments in the Irish countryside. They appear across Cork in considerable numbers, erected most likely during the Bronze Age, though precise dating is rarely possible without excavation. What they marked, whether boundaries, routes, burial sites, or something ceremonial, is a question that continues to generate more theory than certainty. This one, modest in scale but carefully placed, carries all of that ambiguity with it.