The standing stone on the south-western slopes of Caherard Hill, above Ventry Harbour on the Dingle Peninsula, is not obviously dramatic. It rises less than a metre from the ground. But laid flat it would measure two and a half metres in length, and its deliberate, upright placement, oriented roughly north-north-east to south-south-west, sets it apart from every other piece of stone on the same slope.

Standing stones, as a category, are among the most ambiguous monuments in the Irish landscape. Erected variously as boundary markers, memorial stones, or objects with ritual significance, most cannot be dated with precision without excavation. What the Caherard Hill example offers is the quiet oddness of intention: on a slope where nature has been generous with raw material, someone chose this slab, stood it upright, and left it. The stone was recorded and described by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey, a survey that remains one of the most thorough examinations of the Corca Dhuibhne region, a landscape that holds an extraordinary concentration of prehistoric and early medieval remains.