Known in Irish as An Galláinín, a name that translates roughly as "the little standing stone," it is an understated presence: roughly square at its base, measuring about 41 by 40 centimetres, and tilting enough that its true height of around 1.9 metres would only be apparent if it were pulled upright. What makes it slightly more curious than a lone prehistoric marker is that it is not, in fact, alone.

A second, smaller stone sits on its edge just a few centimetres from the west-northwest face of An Galláinín, accompanied by several small packing stones, the kind used to stabilise a standing stone in its socket. Whether the two were deliberately paired, or whether the smaller stone was placed later and for a different purpose, remains unclear. A writer known as An Seabhac, in a 1939 publication, also noted a large prostrate stone in the neighbouring field, a plot called Páircín na Cloiche, meaning roughly "the little field of the stone." That stone was never subsequently located by surveyors, and its connection to the standing stone, if any, is unknown. The place-name alone suggests the field held significance at some point, but when and why has not been established.

The site was documented as part of J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region, a comprehensive effort to catalogue the extraordinary concentration of prehistoric and early medieval monuments on the Dingle Peninsula. Standing stones of this kind are a familiar feature of the Irish landscape, raised during the Bronze Age or earlier as markers, memorials, or territorial indicators, though their precise function is rarely recoverable. An Galláinín offers no clearer answers than most, but the survival of its Irish name, and the quiet persistence of a second stone beside it, gives it a texture that a bare listing of dimensions cannot quite capture.