The stone in question sits in a small paddock in front of a dwelling house and outbuildings on the southern slope of a large rounded hill in Lisroe, County Kerry, and for a period it was absorbed into the fabric of a field wall, its ancient purpose quietly subordinated to the practical demands of livestock management.

Locally, the stone goes by the name Carriglea, and that name is old enough to have been recorded on both the Ordnance Survey first edition map and the later twenty-five inch revision, even though neither map shows any settlement at the site during those surveys. The stone itself is a substantial presence: triangular in profile, roughly 1.5 metres tall and 1.6 metres at its widest point, and only about half a metre thick, giving it a broad, flat-faced quality. It is aligned along an east-west axis on its longest dimension. The material appears to be a form of granite, though its precise type has not been confirmed. Standing stones of this kind are among the most enduring and least understood monuments in the Irish landscape, erected during prehistory for purposes, whether ritual, territorial, or commemorative, that remain a matter of informed speculation rather than settled fact. What is notable here is the contrast between that deep antiquity and the relatively recent decision to press Carriglea into use as a boundary marker, a repurposing that the historical maps suggest happened after their nineteenth-century survey dates. The views from the site extend broadly to the south, east, and west, which may or may not be coincidental to wherever the stone's original placers chose to set it down.