It is not especially dramatic in scale, measuring 1.63 metres high and less than a metre across, but its placement tells you something deliberate happened here a very long time ago.

Standing stones of this type are among the most ancient and least explained features of the Irish landscape. They appear across Cork and Kerry in considerable numbers, sometimes in isolation, sometimes in loose association with stone circles or other prehistoric monuments. Their purpose is debated; alignment with solar or lunar events has been proposed for many, though the evidence varies from site to site. This one, a rectangular block set along an ENE-WSW line, sits in open pasture with an unobstructed view in every direction, which is a characteristic shared by many prehistoric standing stones and may reflect a deliberate choice of elevated or exposed ground, whether for visibility, for observation of the horizon, or for reasons that no longer translate into any framework we can confidently apply.