Whether it was obscured, overlooked, or simply not considered worth recording is now impossible to say, but the omission gives the stone an odd quality of invisibility, as though it managed to slip through one of the more thorough documentation exercises of the nineteenth century.

The stone itself is substantial: 3.8 metres tall and subrectangular in plan, measuring roughly 1.67 metres by 0.55 metres at its base, with its long axis oriented east to west. Its shape is irregular rather than dressed, which is typical of prehistoric standing stones across Ireland, where the form of the raw material was largely accepted as found rather than worked into something uniform. Standing stones of this kind are generally associated with the Bronze Age, though their precise purpose remains debated; they appear in ritual, boundary, and funerary contexts, sometimes in combination. In this case, the funerary connection is tangible: an urn burial was also found in the same field. Urn burials, in which cremated remains were placed inside a ceramic vessel and interred in the ground, are a characteristic Bronze Age practice in Ireland, and their presence alongside a standing stone is not unusual. The two finds together suggest this corner of north Cork once held some significance for the people who worked and moved through this landscape several thousand years ago.