It is thought to be one of at least seven standing stones arranged across the same townland, and together they appear to trace the course of an ancient road or track. The idea that a prehistoric or early medieval route might be legible today only through a sequence of weathered stones, spaced across fields and boundaries, gives the site an oddly compelling quality, like a sentence written in a language where most of the words have been lost.

The stone was catalogued by O'Kelly in 1942 and 1943 as Ballingoola No. 1, described at the time as a well-weathered block of limestone measuring roughly 1.16 metres high, 1.06 metres wide, and just 0.05 metres thick. A standing stone, in general terms, is simply an upright stone set into the ground, usually dating to the prehistoric or early medieval period and often associated with boundaries, routes, or ceremonial use. What makes this group notable is O'Kelly's observation that the stones mark a track running from Lough Gur Cross northward to the barony boundary, and continuing beyond into the barony of Clanwilliam, where a further three stones carry the line onward. The track itself only became briefly visible in 1941 when a field just north of stone No. 2 was ploughed, exposing a broad band of limestone chippings cutting across the darker surrounding soil, a rare physical trace of the road that these stones had been quietly signposting all along.

Finding the stone today is not straightforward. When the site was assessed for the record compiled by Caimin O'Brien and uploaded in September 2018, the stone could not be located on the ground, as the section of field fence indicated on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map was heavily overgrown with briars and scrub vegetation. Anyone visiting the area would do well to go in late summer or early autumn when growth has peaked and visibility through hedgerows is sometimes marginally better, though access remains uncertain. The broader landscape around Lough Gur is worth exploring regardless, as it is exceptionally dense with prehistoric monuments, and understanding this stone as one waymarker in a long-vanished road system makes even an inconclusive search feel worthwhile.