It stands roughly 0.95 metres tall, with a broad, subrectangular face measuring about 0.74 metres by 0.5 metres, oriented along a southwest to northeast axis. That alignment is unlikely to be accidental; many Irish standing stones share orientations that archaeologists have linked to solar or lunar events, though the specific intentions behind any individual stone are rarely recoverable.

The stone sits in level pasture about 70 metres west of the River Lee, a location that would have felt purposeful to whoever erected it, probably during the Bronze Age, when the raising of single upright stones was a widespread practice across Ireland. Whether it marked a territorial boundary, a burial, a meeting place, or something else entirely, the River Lee nearby would have been a significant landscape feature, a corridor for movement and perhaps a boundary in its own right. The stone's modest size does not diminish its age; many of Cork's standing stones have survived millennia simply because farmers found it easier to plough around them than to remove them.