Yet that is precisely what occupies this corner of south Kerry, where a pillar stone 1.65 metres tall and 0.45 metres wide at its base has been built into the external face of a circular earthwork, rather than standing freely in open ground. The choice to anchor it there, at the south-south-western edge of an enclosure, suggests a deliberate relationship between the stone and whatever the enclosure was meant to contain or mark.

The enclosure belongs to a ceallúnach, a type of early Irish burial ground, often informal and unenconsecrated, associated with the interment of unbaptised children or others who fell outside the rites of the institutional church. This one contains a leacht, which is a low cairn or platform sometimes used for devotional purposes, alongside a gable-shrine, a holed stone, and a collection of uninscribed grave-markers. A second ceallúnach lies a short distance to the east, suggesting that this stretch of pasture carried considerable ritual significance over a long period. The wider site also includes an earthwork complex and several house sites, all contained within a roughly rectangular area defined by modern field boundaries. What makes the pillar stone particularly interesting is a detail recorded by the scholar Françoise Henry in 1957: up to the early 1950s, a fragment of a stone basin, possibly a bullaun stone, a type of bowl-shaped rock used in early Christian and prehistoric ritual contexts, was said to have lain at its base. Its disappearance sometime before Henry's visit leaves a gap that the archaeology cannot now close.