Most prehistoric monuments of any size were dutifully recorded by the OS surveyors, whose nineteenth-century fieldwork remains a benchmark for tracking what existed, and when. That this stone in Curraclogh, in mid Cork, escaped both surveys suggests it was either obscured, forgotten, or simply missed, which gives it a slightly ghostly quality among the county's standing stones.

The stone itself is quartzite, a hard metamorphic rock with a faintly glittering surface, and it stands 1.15 metres high with a base measuring roughly 0.9 by 0.86 metres. Its plan is subrectangular, meaning it is broadly rectangular but without sharp, regular corners, and its long axis runs east-northeast to west-southwest. That orientation is worth noting: many Irish standing stones are thought to have been positioned with astronomical alignments in mind, though whether this particular axis was deliberate or incidental is unknown. Quartzite was a favoured material for prehistoric monuments across Ireland, possibly because of the way it catches light, though again the reasoning of the people who erected it remains beyond reach. Standing stones of this type generally date to the Bronze Age, roughly 2500 to 500 BC, though precise dating without excavation is rarely possible.