The stone at Knuttery in north County Cork was simply not recorded on either of those landmark mapping surveys, which means it spent the better part of two centuries sitting quietly in a field, unacknowledged by any official document.

The stone itself is a substantial upright, standing 1.65 metres tall with a rectangular cross-section measuring roughly 0.68 metres by 0.38 metres. Its long axis runs northeast to southwest, an orientation that recurs across many prehistoric standing stones in Ireland, though whether that alignment was deliberately chosen for astronomical, territorial, or ritual reasons at Knuttery is unknown. It sits on a west-southwest-facing slope, now pasture, in that broad swathe of north Cork countryside where such prehistoric markers are not uncommon but rarely celebrated. Standing stones of this kind are among the most enduring and least understood monuments in the Irish landscape; erected most likely during the Bronze Age, they survive without the contextual clues that a burial mound or enclosure might offer, their original purpose lost.