Its long axis runs northeast to southwest, a deliberate alignment that is one of the defining characteristics of prehistoric standing stones across Ireland, and it took until 2018 for anyone to formally record it as such. Briars, bracken, and gorse have grown up around it, which may partly explain the oversight.

The stone itself is sub-rectangular in plan, meaning its cross-section at ground level is roughly, though not precisely, rectangular. Its four sides measure between 0.4 and 0.88 metres, and the sides run parallel to one another for about 0.6 metres before tapering upward to a point. The ground is slightly lower on the southeast side than the northwest, giving the stone a faint tilt in its setting. Standing stones of this kind are found throughout Kerry and the wider Munster region, often associated with Bronze Age activity, though without excavation it is rarely possible to date an individual example precisely. What can be said is that the sightline from this stone toward the southeast offers a clear view of Knocknasullig, the hill known locally as the Sugarloaf, which may or may not be coincidental. About 25 metres to the south-southeast, a derelict two-storey house adds a later layer of abandonment to the scene, two different kinds of silence occupying the same overgrown field.