A single roughly rectangular stone, leaning slightly to the east-northeast with its long axis running broadly north to south, is all that remains of what was recorded across three successive Ordnance Survey maps, in 1842, 1904, and 1936, as a pair of standing stones. The companion stone is gone, or rather it came down at some point before living memory, and the site is now quietly incomplete in a way that is easy to miss if you do not know to look for the absence.

Galláin is the Irish term for standing stones of this kind, prehistoric upright megaliths whose precise original purpose remains a matter of debate, variously associated with burial, territorial marking, or astronomical alignment. Writing in 1937, a researcher named Broker described two galláin set roughly ten feet apart. The one still standing measured about eight feet in height. The fallen companion was considerably more substantial, ten to twelve feet long and five feet in girth, described as rather flat. That second stone has since disappeared entirely from the site, though a scatter of large stones lying to the southwest may include field clearance material that accumulated in the same area over subsequent generations of farming. The surviving stone measures 1.7 metres high and 1.2 metres across at its widest point, modest by the standards of some Cork monuments but substantial enough to have commanded attention across a working agricultural landscape for several thousand years.