What makes it quietly interesting is that it was not recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of either 1842 or 1903, meaning it passed entirely unnoticed by the surveyors who mapped this part of mid Cork in considerable detail. Standing stones, prehistoric upright stones erected for purposes that remain genuinely unclear, were catalogued with reasonable thoroughness during those surveys, so this one's absence from both is a small puzzle.

The stone itself is rectangular in plan, measuring roughly 1.62 metres in height and about 39 centimetres by 10 centimetres across its face, with its long axis oriented north-northwest to south-southeast. It sits in the flood plain of the Sullane River valley, low ground that would have looked and functioned very differently in prehistory, when such stones were likely being erected. A second, similar standing stone stands approximately 55 metres to the north in the same field, suggesting the two were placed in deliberate relationship with one another, though whether as boundary markers, ritual monuments, or something else entirely is not known. Paired standing stones are not unusual in the Irish archaeological record, but the combination of their shared field, their similar form, and their alignment invites curiosity about what this stretch of the Sullane valley once meant to the people who put them there.