That detail, small and almost comic, speaks to how thoroughly this stone has been absorbed into the ordinary rhythms of a working farm in Lisnacullia, in the old barony of Connello Lower, County Limerick, even as it continues to stand where someone, at some point in prehistory, chose to put it.

The stone itself is a substantial and somewhat unusual specimen. Recorded by Denis Power, it measures 2.5 metres in height, with a base width of 1.8 metres tapering to 0.8 metres at the top, and a girth at its widest middle point of 4.6 metres, giving it a distinctly bulbous, almost swollen profile. It is deeply fissured limestone, leaning slightly to the east, positioned on a break in an east-facing slope. Standing stones, which are single upright stones set into the ground and found widely across Ireland, are generally believed to date from the Bronze Age, though their precise purposes remain debated; they have been associated with burials, boundaries, and ritual activity. At its base on the eastern side, packing stones are still visible, the small stones used to stabilise the upright when it was first erected, with a loose scatter of stones extending roughly a metre outward from the base.

The stone sits in pasture, which means access will depend on the landowner, and the usual courtesies of asking permission before crossing farmland apply. It is worth approaching from the east, where the packing stones at the base are most evident and where the slight lean of the stone becomes apparent against the slope. The cattle-smoothed lower half is immediately noticeable up close, a contrast to the rough, deeply fissured upper section that has been beyond reach of grazing animals. That worn surface, perhaps more than anything else, gives a sense of just how long this stone has been a fixture in this particular patch of Limerick landscape.