The example at Kealanine, in County Cork, makes no such claim to grandeur. It stands just 1.1 metres high, roughly rectangular in cross-section and irregular in plan, a modest upright slab measuring 1.05 metres by 0.55 metres at its base. What gives it a quiet interest is its precise east-west orientation, a characteristic shared by many prehistoric standing stones across Ireland and Britain, and one that is thought by some archaeologists to reflect an awareness of solar movement, though the exact purpose of any individual stone rarely admits of certainty.

The stone sits on rough grazing land, on boggy ground along a south-facing slope on the western side of the Coomhola River valley, in the upland country of west Cork. The Coomhola River drains southward through a narrow glacially formed valley toward Bantry Bay, and the surrounding landscape is one of rough pasture and blanket bog, the kind of terrain that has changed relatively little since prehistory. The stone's location on sloping boggy ground is not unusual for the region; peat formation has, in many cases, actually helped to preserve prehistoric monuments by burying and stabilising their bases, while the open grazing that replaced earlier woodland has kept them visible rather than swallowed by scrub.