It is not a grand monument in the tourist sense; the land around it is poor, the shore close but unspectacular. Yet the stone itself has a quiet precision to it, tapering in both width and thickness towards a roughly pointed top, and packing stones are still visible wedged around its base, the original installation work exposed and legible after what may be thousands of years.

The stone stands 1.98 metres high and measures 1.4 metres by 0.8 metres at the base, dimensions recorded as part of the broader archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, the long finger of land in south Kerry that reaches out into the Atlantic and contains an extraordinary concentration of prehistoric monuments. Standing stones of this type are a common feature of the Irish landscape, raised during the Bronze Age or possibly earlier, though their precise purposes remain contested; some appear to mark boundaries or routeways, others may have had ceremonial or astronomical functions. What gives this particular example additional interest is its location within a small cluster of related sites. Roughly 160 metres to the north lies a boulder-burial and a separate standing stone, a boulder-burial being a megalithic monument in which a large capstone rests directly on the ground or on small supporting stones. Whether these monuments were raised at the same time, by the same community, and for connected purposes is not recorded, but their proximity suggests a landscape that was once meaningfully organised around this stretch of lakeshore.