These are cupmarks, the simplest and most widespread form of prehistoric rock art found in Ireland, made by grinding or hammering a rounded depression into stone. No one knows with certainty what they meant to the people who made them, but they appear across the landscape in their thousands, often in elevated positions with commanding views, and this example is no exception. At 168 metres above sea level, the stone faces west along a south-south-east-sloping hillside, with the valley spread out below and Dingle Bay visible in the distance to the south.

The stone itself is a fractured sandstone slab, roughly 1.25 metres long and 0.80 metres wide, and quite thin at about 15 centimetres. The decorated face measures 1.25 metres by 0.56 metres, and the twenty-seven cupmarks range between 4.5 and 6 centimetres in diameter and between 8 and 15 millimetres in depth, making them modest but clearly deliberate. Crucially, the stone is described as ex-situ, meaning it is no longer in its original position. It has been displaced, most likely during the long history of agricultural clearance on this hillside, and now rests on the western side of an earth and stone field boundary, sitting above a scatter of other large clearance stones. Whether it was carved where it now lies, or carried here from somewhere else on the slope, is unknown. A second piece of rock art lies roughly 45 metres to the west, suggesting this small area of rough hill pasture once held some significance that is now only faintly legible in the landscape.