Two prehistoric upright stones, set close together and absorbed into a field boundary, were clearly visible on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1846. Sometime between that survey and the present, one of them disappeared, leaving its companion to mark the site alone.

The surviving stone is substantial: rectangular in shape and plan, measuring 1.4 metres wide and standing 2.55 metres tall. It is orientated NNE-SSW and leans noticeably to the SE. At its SW corner, packing-stones are still visible, the small stones wedged around the base to stabilise the upright when it was first erected, a detail that connects the monument directly to the hands that raised it. The site sits on a level area of rough pasture on the NW-facing slopes of the mountain, looking out over Kenmare Bay to the north. That a second stone once stood alongside it is a reminder of how much the prehistoric landscape has quietly contracted over the centuries, through field clearance, stone robbing for walls and buildings, and the slow rearrangements of agricultural life. Standing stones erected as pairs are thought to carry a different significance from solitary examples, though their precise function, whether territorial, ceremonial, or astronomical, remains a matter of debate. About 80 metres to the NW, a separate standing stone survives as well, suggesting this particular stretch of hillside was once a more populated ceremonial or commemorative landscape than it now appears.