At 1.3 metres high and roughly the same in length, it is not especially tall, but its irregular shape and the quartz veins running through the rock give it a particular character. The long axis runs northeast to southwest, and a scatter of field clearance stones on its eastern side suggests it has shared this ground with the working routines of the farm for a long time, even if those routines never quite disturbed it.

The stone was recorded in 1934 by a researcher named Bowman, who noted it as the first of six standing stones within the same townland, cataloguing it simply as being on the land of a J. Daly. That cluster of six stones in a single townland is itself quietly unusual. Standing stones are common enough across Cork and the wider south of Ireland, raised during the Bronze Age for purposes that remain genuinely uncertain, whether as boundary markers, ritual focal points, or something else entirely, but finding so many concentrated in one place draws attention to Nohaval as a landscape that evidently mattered to whoever shaped it thousands of years ago. The fact that this particular stone was absent from both the mid-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Ordnance Survey maps suggests it either escaped the notice of surveyors or was simply not considered significant enough to record at the time.