The carving is crude and weathered, the nose worn and flattened, but the eyebrows, eyes, and mouth remain legible, and the shape of the head has a distinctly pear-like quality, tapering to a point as though suggesting a beard. It is the kind of object that raises more questions than it answers, and by 1943 it had already been moved once, placed on top of a nearby gallán, a simple upright standing stone, apparently to keep it from being lost again. By that point, according to the Kerry Field Club, no surviving trace of either stone remained.

The more detailed account comes from 1939, when Captain D.B. O'Connell of Killarney made careful notes about a stretch of field wall running north to south across the hill's southern face. He found the carved head, a block of limestone dressed and squared on five sides, tucked among the wall's loose stones, along with a second piece he identified as part of a door-jamb, that is, one of the upright stones forming a doorway. This second stone was accurately worked and decorated on one surface with small, regular pocking marks. More intriguing still was a deep square channel cut across one face; O'Connell suggested its position and direction were consistent with housing a door-bar, a horizontal timber used to secure a door from the inside. He placed both stones at the base of a small standing stone located about 457 metres west-southwest of the prominent pair of gallauns on Ardconnell's summit, intending them to be recoverable. The wider landscape he described was one of considerable former activity: a large fort known as Caherferta had already been levelled by a landowner, and the hilltop retained the outlines of foundation sites, old field boundaries, and evidence of quarrying. O'Connell noted in passing that Killeacle, the nearby placename, may derive from a phrase meaning "Church of the Tooth", and that a 1756 edition of Smith's Kerry shows a church marked at that location, raising the possibility that the carved head and dressed stonework had ecclesiastical origins, though he did not pursue the question.