It measures 1.75 metres high, 1.5 metres wide, and only 0.2 metres thick, giving it the flat, blade-like proportions typical of prehistoric standing stones, upright monoliths erected during the Bronze Age or earlier whose precise purposes remain debated but which are often associated with burial, ritual, or the marking of boundaries and routes.

What makes this particular stone quietly notable is that it went unrecorded until relatively recently. It came to attention through J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region, the Dingle Peninsula, published under the title 'Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey.' That survey, produced through Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne in Ballyferriter, documented the stone's location as approximately 110 metres north of another recorded site. The fact that it had not been previously noted in any earlier inventory is a reminder of how much of the Irish prehistoric landscape was catalogued only in the latter decades of the twentieth century, and how much may still be incompletely understood.