It is not especially famous, nor does it sit beside a well-worn heritage trail, but it has been standing long enough that the valley below it, the Lispole valley, has had time to acquire a name and a history of its own while the stone simply remains.

The stone at An Gráig is aligned on an ENE-WSW axis, a detail that may or may not be coincidental depending on one's view of prehistoric intent. At its base it measures 1.7 metres across and 0.45 metres in depth, tapering as it rises, a form typical of the standing stones, or galláin, that appear throughout the Dingle Peninsula. These are prehistoric monuments, most likely Bronze Age in origin, whose precise purpose remains genuinely uncertain; theories range from territorial markers to astronomical alignments to focal points for ritual activity. The stone's dimensions and position were recorded by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, a systematic effort to document the extraordinary concentration of prehistoric and early medieval monuments on this part of the Kerry coastline. The ridge on which it stands, running from Sea Hill toward Bull's Head, places it in a landscape already dense with archaeological significance.