Heavily weathered and leaning slightly to the south, it measures about 1.36 metres wide, 0.65 metres thick, and 1.88 metres high, oriented east to west. It is not dramatic in scale, but standing stones of this kind, set upright in the landscape during prehistory, were rarely about drama. Their purposes remain genuinely uncertain, ranging from territorial markers to ceremonial focal points, and this one offers no obvious clues beyond its stubborn presence.

The stone sits approximately 200 metres west of another recorded monument in the area, suggesting it may once have formed part of a wider pattern of activity in this corner of the peninsula. The Dingle Peninsula is unusually dense with prehistoric and early medieval remains, a consequence partly of its geography and partly of the long tradition of scholarship focused on the region. The description of this stone was recorded by J. Cuppage as part of the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey published in 1986, a detailed inventory of the monuments of this Irish-speaking stretch of west Kerry. The weathering noted then has only continued since, the stone's original surface and any finer shaping it may once have had now largely lost to time and Atlantic exposure.