The stone sits just upstream of a spring well known as Toberreendoney, or Tobar Rí an Domhnaigh, meaning roughly "the Well of the King of Sunday," a name that hints at the kind of sacred associations these water sources have carried in Ireland for well over a thousand years. Holy wells were, and in some cases still are, focal points for local devotion, and the proximity of a cross-inscribed stone is no coincidence.

The well itself sits in a rock cavity on the eastern side of the stream that marks the boundary between the townlands of Gortacurraun and Farrannacarriga. Boundary locations were rarely accidental choices for early Christian monuments; liminal spaces, edges between one territory and another, carried their own significance. The Latin cross form, with its equal-armed or elongated design, was a common vehicle for marking sacred ground in early medieval Ireland, and the T-bar terminals here give it a particular, if understated, character. The site was recorded by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, a comprehensive catalogue of the extraordinary concentration of early monuments in that part of Kerry.