The stone measures 3.6 metres long, between 1.05 and 0.3 metres wide, and 0.6 metres thick, which makes it substantial enough to command attention. The problem is that when it was recorded, it appeared to have been recently repositioned, resting on top of a field wall to the south rather than standing upright in the ground. Whether it once stood as a true standing stone, one of the prehistoric monoliths erected singly or in alignments across the Irish landscape, cannot be said with any confidence. The evidence, as the archaeologists put it, is insufficient for definite classification.

The site appears on the second edition of the Ordnance Survey map marked with a symbol resembling that used for a standing stone, though it carries no name or label. That cartographic gesture, tentative and untitled, captures the uncertainty well. The boulder sits on a coastal hillside overlooking the low-lying strip between the Dingle Peninsula and the bay, a stretch of land where prehistoric monuments are not unusual. The Dingle Peninsula has one of the densest concentrations of early archaeological remains in Ireland, and it was surveyed in detail by J. Cuppage in a 1986 publication, "Corca Dhuibhne: Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey", which recorded this stone as entry number 153. At that point the repositioning already appeared recent, suggesting the stone had been moved within living memory, though by whom and under what circumstances was not recorded.