The example at Dromagorteen in County Kerry is less than a metre tall, subrectangular in shape, and leans slightly to the south as though it has been slowly losing interest in standing upright. Set on a south-west-facing slope in the valley of the Sheen River, within what is now Bonane Heritage Park, it measures roughly half a metre wide and just over eighty centimetres high. Its orientation runs east to west, a alignment that recurs across many prehistoric standing stones in Ireland, though whether that reflects ritual intention, practical habit, or something else entirely remains genuinely unresolved.

What makes the spot worth pausing over is not the stone in isolation but the company it keeps. Approximately sixty metres to the south lies a rath, the circular earthen enclosure that was the standard form of a defended farmstead in early medieval Ireland, typically dating to somewhere between the sixth and twelfth centuries. Roughly seventy metres to the south-south-west sits a hut site. The standing stone itself is likely considerably older than either of those, prehistoric in origin, though the clustering of features across a compact area of hillside suggests that this slope was returned to repeatedly across a very long span of human activity. People farmed here, enclosed their land, and built their shelters within sight of a stone that was already ancient when they did so.