Measuring over three metres in length and tapering to a distinct point, it has the look of something that should be vertical, and once was.

Standing stones, erected throughout Ireland from the Neolithic period onwards, were set upright in the landscape for reasons that remain largely unresolved, possibly as boundary markers, ritual monuments, or memorials. This particular example on the Iveragh Peninsula fell from its upright position around 1896, a date recorded in the Ordnance Survey Revision Name Books, which were field notebooks compiled by surveyors as they updated mapping of the Irish landscape throughout the nineteenth century. At 3.1 metres long and over a metre wide, the stone would have been a considerable presence when standing. Now it lies on its edge against the corner of an enclosure surrounding a derelict farm, a juxtaposition that quietly layers different periods of human activity on the same patch of hillside, the prehistoric and the agricultural collapsed together in the one spot.