Rather than standing alone in open ground, as many prehistoric upright stones do across Kerry, this one sits within the south-eastern quadrant of a rath, the kind of circular earthwork enclosure, usually associated with early medieval settlement, that dots the Irish countryside in considerable numbers. Finding a standing stone inside such an enclosure, oriented north to south and still held in position by a visible packing-stone at its northern base, raises questions that the ground itself does not easily answer.

The stone is modest in its dimensions, roughly 0.6 metres wide, 0.4 metres deep, and just under a metre in height, irregular in plan rather than neatly shaped. Its relationship to the surrounding rath is not straightforwardly explained. Standing stones of this kind generally predate early medieval ringforts by a considerable margin, which leaves open the possibility that the enclosure was built around, or at least in awareness of, a marker that was already old. A second standing stone lies a short distance to the south, suggesting that whatever purpose these stones once served, it was not achieved by a single upright alone.