Set in the townland of Beal Middle in north County Kerry, it is a large, irregularly shaped standing stone, rising to about 1.2 metres in height and measuring 2.2 metres across and nearly 2 metres in thickness. Around its base, packing stones have been wedged in to hold it upright, a detail that makes plain this was no accidental arrangement. Someone, at some point in prehistory, went to considerable trouble to ensure it stayed exactly where it was put.

The stone sits to the south-south-east of a promontory fort, a type of coastal or cliff-edge enclosure where a natural headland was defended by an earthwork or bank cutting across its landward approach. The proximity of the standing stone to that fort is suggestive, though what the relationship meant to the people who built both features is not easily recovered. Standing stones in Ireland were erected across a broad sweep of prehistory, and their purposes varied: territorial markers, memorials, components of ritual landscapes, or boundary indicators. The pairing of a standing stone with a nearby promontory fort in this corner of Kerry adds a layer of spatial logic to the site, even if the exact meaning of that logic remains open.