Standing stones of this kind are among the oldest human interventions in the Irish landscape, erected during the Bronze Age or earlier, though their precise purposes remain debated. Some marked boundaries or routeways, others may have had ritual significance, and many are now impossible to interpret with certainty. What survives here is the thing itself: a block of stone measuring roughly 1.2 metres by 1.7 metres at its base and standing 1.8 metres tall, planted in ground that has probably looked much the same for centuries.

The stone sits in Coomleagh townland, just south of a road, positioned according to a 1998 account by Myler just over the ditch on the south side. Its elevated position gives it a southward prospect over the Mealagh River valley, a placement that may or may not have been deliberate but gives the stone a quiet sense of purpose. The irregularity of its shape is worth noting; unlike some standing stones that are clearly dressed or selected for their regular form, this one seems to have been chosen and placed with relatively little modification, which is itself fairly typical of the tradition across Cork and Kerry.