The example at Tooreennagrena, in north County Cork, is a quietly modest presence: a rectangular block of stone, just 0.58 metres tall, set into a pasture on a north-east-facing slope. Standing stones, erected during the Bronze Age in most Irish cases, were placed upright in the ground for purposes that remain genuinely unclear, variously interpreted as territorial markers, ritual focal points, or commemorative monuments. This one is small enough that a grazing animal might pass it without much notice, yet it has endured in its original position long enough to be formally recorded.

The stone itself measures roughly 0.28 by 0.3 metres in cross-section and is rectangular in plan, with its long axis running east to west. That orientation is worth a moment of thought: alignment with the rising or setting sun was not uncommon among prehistoric monuments in Ireland, though whether any such intention lay behind the placement here is impossible to say with certainty. What the record does tell us is that the stone sits on a slope facing north-east, in ground that has long been given over to pasture, which means it has likely been a quiet fixture in a working agricultural landscape for a very long time.