A single rectangular standing stone, rising to 1.62 metres and oriented along a north-south axis, is all that remains upright. Two further stones, fallen and no longer in their original positions, were removed from the site in February 1985, one of them apparently having been dumped there rather than having fallen naturally in place. A stone row, as the site type is classified, would originally have comprised several stones set in a deliberate linear arrangement, a form found widely across the Cork landscape and associated with prehistoric ritual or ceremonial activity, though the precise purpose of such monuments remains a matter of ongoing debate.

The documentary record adds a layer of quiet loss to the physical one. Both the Ordnance Survey Name Book of 1897 and the OS Memoranda of 1936 describe the site as a pair of standing stones, suggesting that at those points in the twentieth century, at least two stones were still upright. By the time fieldwork caught up with the site more recently, only one remained so, and the removal of the fallen stones in 1985 means that whatever information they might have yielded, about spacing, alignment, or original arrangement, is no longer recoverable from the ground. What had perhaps already been reduced from a row to a pair was then reduced further still, leaving a single stone to mark what was once a more complex monument.