The first edition of the Ordnance Survey map recorded a feature here labelled "Gallaun", the Irish term for a standing stone, a single upright megalith of the kind erected across Ireland from the Bronze Age onwards. At that time it was noted as standing roughly five feet, or 1.5 metres, tall. By the time the second edition of the OS map was produced, it had disappeared from the record entirely.

What survives on the ground today is rather harder to read. A large earthfast boulder, 2.5 metres long and about 0.8 metres high, now occupies the site. Some two metres to its south lie two fragments of stone, each roughly 0.6 metres by 0.5 metres, with a third fragment apparently buried in the ground between them. These pieces may be the remains of the original standing stone, toppled and broken, with the smaller fragments possibly serving as the packing stones that would once have been wedged around its base to hold it upright. The uncertainty is genuine, though; no excavation has confirmed the relationship between these stones, and the boulder itself may simply be a large natural feature that happened to be nearby when the gallaun was recorded. The site was documented by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, which remains the principal source for prehistoric monuments in this part of County Kerry.