The upper surface slopes steeply and measures roughly 1.4 metres by 1 metre. On its western side, twelve cupmarks have been carved into the rock, accompanied by an area of what is described as pocking, a broader roughening or pecking of the stone surface that often appears alongside the more precisely formed cup-shaped hollows. Cupmarks are among the most widespread and least understood features of prehistoric rock art: shallow, circular depressions ground or pecked into stone, found across Ireland and much of Atlantic Europe, and almost certainly carrying significance that has not survived alongside them.

The site sits at around 166 metres above sea level, with views northward toward Ballaghbeama Gap, a dramatic mountain pass through the Iveragh peninsula in south Kerry. It was catalogued by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan in their 1996 archaeological survey of the Iveragh peninsula, drawing on earlier fieldwork by A. Purcell from 1993. Despite this documentation, two separate attempts to relocate the boulder on the ground came up empty, and there is reason to believe that a mapping diagram associated with the site was filed under the wrong reference number entirely. The motifs themselves are recorded as well-preserved, which makes the difficulty in finding the boulder all the more striking. A drystone field boundary, the kind of low unmortared stone wall built by generations of farmers clearing and enclosing this rough terrain, lies approximately twelve to fourteen metres to the east, suggesting the boulder sits within a landscape that has been worked and known, however quietly, for a long time.