This one is different. The Gallán Bán, as it is recorded in the Irish Folklore Commission's Schools' Collection, is a block of white quartz, and that choice of material was almost certainly deliberate. Quartz carried deep significance in prehistoric Ireland, associated repeatedly with burial monuments and ritual sites, and its bright surface would have caught the light in ways that darker stone simply could not. The stone stands in low-lying flat pasture just north of the Oghermong river on the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, tilting slightly to the north-east now, overlooking Valentia Harbour with wide views opening out in other directions.

The stone itself is roughly rectangular in elevation and nearly square at its base, its sides measuring between 0.7 and 0.95 metres across. A smaller, squat boulder has been set upright directly against its northern face, standing 0.65 metres high, and packing stones are still visible around the bases of both. The relationship between the two stones is not entirely clear, but the smaller one does not look incidental. Extending westward from the base of the larger stone is a roughly rectangular spread of large boulders, smaller stones, and some uprights, measuring around 11 metres by 6.5 metres, its south-eastern edge defined by a low curved bank of stone and earth. About 17 metres to the east, an L-shaped bank of stone and earth, barely rising above the surrounding ground, traces out a shape roughly 22 to 23 metres on each arm, with loose boulders scattered along it. Taken together, these features suggest the standing stone is not an isolated monument but part of a wider, now largely flattened complex whose original purpose remains open to interpretation.