The six-inch OS maps of that era were remarkably thorough in recording ancient monuments, which makes this stone's absence from them quietly puzzling. It sits in pasture on a north-facing slope at Knockane in Mid Cork, a subrectangular block of stone standing 1.4 metres tall and measuring roughly 1.2 metres by 0.8 metres at its base, oriented with its long axis running northeast to southwest.

Standing stones are among the most ambiguous monuments in the Irish landscape. Erected anywhere from the Neolithic period through to the early medieval era, they served purposes that are rarely recoverable with certainty, whether as boundary markers, ritual focal points, or memorials. The northeast-southwest alignment of this particular stone is worth noting; many standing stones across Ireland share orientations tied to solar or lunar events, though without excavation or further context it would be speculative to draw firm conclusions here. What the 1842 omission does suggest is that the stone may have been obscured, fallen, or simply overlooked at that time, and either re-erected or rediscovered in the intervening period before it entered the archaeological record.