It measures 1.65 metres in height and just 0.6 metres by 0.15 metres in cross-section, making it a relatively slender example of a class of monument that appears throughout Ireland in considerable numbers. Standing stones, sometimes called galláin, were erected during the Bronze Age or earlier, though their precise function remains debated. Some are thought to mark boundaries or routeways, others burial sites, and others still may have carried a ritual or astronomical significance that is now largely beyond recovery.

The stone was recorded by Walsh in 1985 and catalogued as part of the archaeological inventory of East and South Cork. Beyond its dimensions and its location in pasture, the historical record is quiet on the matter, which is itself rather typical of these monuments. They endure in the landscape not because anyone has maintained them, but because a stone set deeply enough into the ground is simply difficult to remove. This one has outlasted whatever ceremony or intention first put it there, and now stands in farmland, a small interruption in the grass.