It measures roughly four metres east to west and just over three metres north to south, rising only twenty centimetres above the surrounding surface. On its own, it would be easy to overlook entirely. But set against it is a tall slab carved with a cross inscription, and near its centre stands a rough pillar stone of sandstone less than a metre high. This kind of structure is known as a leacht, an outdoor devotional monument associated with early Irish Christianity, typically used as a focus for prayer or commemoration, often marking a grave or a site of particular sanctity. The combination of the raised platform, the inscribed slab, and the standing stone gives this one a quiet density that rewards attention.

The arrangement does not stop there. A third pillar stone, slightly taller at just over a metre, stands beside the southern jamb of the church doorway itself. The positioning, flanking the entrance to the building, suggests it was deliberately placed in relation to the architecture rather than simply left over from an earlier phase of use. The island's early ecclesiastical character is legible in these details: the leacht platform, the cross-carved slab, the rough sandstone pillars. These are not decorative features but functional ones, each element playing a role in a devotional landscape that once structured how people moved through and engaged with the site. The survey of the Iveragh peninsula compiled by Aidan O'Sullivan and John Sheehan, published by Cork University Press in 1996, remains the principal source for the recorded dimensions and arrangement of these stones.