It is not tall or dramatic; it measures just one metre in height, with a base roughly one metre by half a metre, oriented broadly ESE-WNW. What makes it quietly interesting is precisely that uncertainty around it: it is recorded as "possibly a standing stone", which is a category of deliberate understatement in Irish field archaeology. Standing stones are among the most common prehistoric monument types in Ireland, erected variously as boundary markers, ritual focal points, or commemorative uprights, but distinguishing an intentionally placed prehistoric stone from a naturally occurring one or a more recent field clearance boulder is often genuinely difficult, particularly when a stone is low and sits in ground already busy with natural geology.

The stone appears in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey by J. Cuppage, a substantial volume produced under the Irish name Corca Dhuibhne, which remains one of the more thorough regional surveys of its kind for the southwest. The Dingle Peninsula is extraordinarily dense with early monuments, from promontory forts and ogham stones to beehive huts and early Christian enclosures, and a small unassuming upright like this one can easily be passed over in that company. Its location at Cill Mhic An Domhnaigh, a placename that suggests an early ecclesiastical association, adds a layer of context without resolving anything. Whether the stone predates any such association or was incorporated into a later sacred landscape is not something the available evidence answers.