The stone at Dromore is a rectangular slab, roughly 2.7 metres tall and about 0.8 metres wide, oriented along a north-north-east to south-south-west axis. That alignment is unlikely to be accidental. Standing stones, which were erected throughout Ireland during the Bronze Age and possibly earlier, are often oriented in ways that suggest an awareness of solar or lunar cycles, though the precise intentions of the people who raised them are rarely recoverable.

What makes this particular stone quietly remarkable is its setting. Rather than standing in a field margin or on a hillside, as most West Cork examples do, it occupies a schoolyard, absorbed into the domestic rhythms of a working institution. The stone measures 0.8 metres by 0.55 metres at its base, giving it a solid, upright presence rather than the tapering profile of some prehistoric pillars. Beyond its dimensions and orientation, the record is spare, which in itself says something. The stone was evidently well enough known and well enough preserved to document, but its history before the school was built around or beside it has not been traced to any named individual or datable event.