Roughly 1.35 metres tall and tapering toward its top, it stands in rough pastureland with a clear outlook over the mouth of Kenmare Bay. Whether it qualifies as a true standing stone, an upright marker deliberately placed by human hands, remains uncertain enough that it is officially recorded only as a "possible" example of the type. That ambiguity is part of what makes it interesting. Standing stones are among the most common prehistoric monuments in Ireland, yet their precise purpose is still debated; they have been associated with burial sites, territorial boundaries, and astronomical alignments, depending on the context.

What makes the location more compelling is that this stone does not sit in isolation. A short distance to the north-east, there is both a stone row and a fallen standing stone. A stone row is a linear arrangement of upright stones, generally of prehistoric date, and the clustering of such features in one area suggests the slopes of Bolus Mountain held some significance in the distant past, though exactly what kind remains open to interpretation. The area falls within the Iveragh Peninsula, one of the most archaeologically dense parts of Ireland, where the combination of remote terrain and relatively undisturbed land has allowed a remarkable number of early monuments to survive.