Where such monuments are more commonly associated with upland moorland or exposed ridgelines, this stone occupies the floor of the valley that stretches north-east from Dingle Town, set into level pasture that was itself won from boggy or waterlogged ground at some point in the agricultural past. It stands 1.45 metres tall today, though the southern side is broken across the top, suggesting the original height was somewhat greater. At its base it measures just over a metre wide and half a metre deep, oriented north to south.

Standing stones, as a class of monument, are notoriously difficult to date with precision. They were erected across prehistoric Ireland over a very broad span of time, sometimes as boundary markers, sometimes in association with burials, and sometimes for purposes that remain genuinely unclear. What archaeology can usually offer is context rather than certainty. The Dingle Peninsula is unusually dense with prehistoric remains, and this stone was recorded by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the peninsula, a landmark regional study that catalogued the extraordinary concentration of monuments across this part of County Kerry. That survey placed this stone among a landscape already crowded with early field systems, ogham stones, ring forts, and other traces of long habitation stretching back thousands of years. The valley setting, away from the more dramatic coastal scenery that draws most attention on the peninsula, gives it a slightly overlooked quality.