It does not appear on Ordnance Survey maps, which means anyone who finds it does so by other means, and yet it occupies a position of quiet authority, looking out over the Blackwater river valley and across towards the Beara Peninsula to the south.

Standing stones are among the most enduring and least understood monuments in the Irish landscape. Erected during the Bronze Age in most cases, they served purposes that remain disputed, ranging from boundary markers and ritual focal points to astronomical alignments and memorials. This particular example, with basal measurements of 1.3 metres by 0.6 metres on an east-west axis, is modest in scale but notably well-placed. What makes its situation more interesting is what lies 100 metres to the east: a recorded example of rock art, the term used for the pecked and carved abstract designs, typically cups and rings, that prehistoric communities left on exposed stone surfaces throughout Atlantic Europe. The proximity of the two monuments, neither of them signposted or mapped in any conventional sense, suggests a small but deliberate prehistoric landscape concentrated on this boggy spur above the valley.