That alone gives this modest stone a certain quiet distinction: a monument that slipped through one of the most systematic cartographic exercises ever carried out in Ireland, and that persists today under its Irish name, An Gallán, meaning simply the standing stone, as if no further explanation were needed.

The stone stands about 1.4 metres high and measures roughly 1.2 metres by 0.6 metres at its base, oriented NW-SE. It sits in rough pastureland on a south-west facing slope at the head of the valley through which a tributary of the Milltown river runs south-east towards Dingle Harbour. Standing stones of this kind are among the most enigmatic monuments in the Irish landscape; dating broadly to the Bronze Age in most cases, they were erected as single upright slabs whose original purpose, whether territorial marker, ceremonial focus, or something else entirely, is rarely recoverable. What the Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey of 1986, compiled by J. Cuppage for Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne, recorded here is a stone that had quietly persisted in local memory and local speech long after it had ceased to appear on any official map. The peninsula is unusually dense with prehistoric remains, and even so, An Gallán at Ulacha had gone unregistered in the formal record until that survey brought it to wider attention.