Rising to just over three metres, it is a substantial presence in the north Kerry landscape, irregular in form but with a base that is almost square in plan and a face that is rectangular in elevation. Two companion stones lie nearby, a large slab at the foot of its northern face and a broad flat stone to the east, suggesting that whatever arrangement once existed here was not a simple solitary monument.

A gallán is the Irish term for a standing stone, and examples like this one were raised across Ireland from the Bronze Age onwards, though their precise purposes remain debated. What makes this particular stone a little stranger than most is a local tradition recorded alongside its measurements: the stone, it is said, was not always where it now stands but was moved to its current position from elsewhere in the same field. That displacement, if accurate, adds a layer of ambiguity to any reading of its relationship with the surrounding landscape or the stones beside it. Adding to the layered quality of its history, the stone appears on Ordnance Survey maps from both the 1841 to 1842 survey and the 1916 revision, where it is marked under the name Dallaun, a Hiberno-English form of the Irish word, pointing to how long local memory has maintained a distinct identity for this particular stone even as its exact origins blurred.