This stone allows me to mention a couple of things. I'll deal with the relevent one first. Clare and The Burren in particular have a shortage of standing stones. There are a couple of recognised rows and there are the Curricks (tall, slim man-made piles of stones), but not many standing stones. This is partly because of the ground: solid limestone. In many places you come across slabs standing up in the grooves in the limestone, but these are undateable. So are stones like this one.
This is a large erratic, but it seems odd that it should be standing up the way it is. Elsewhere too there are erratics that seem to have unusually flat bottoms - have they been worked in order to make the stone stand?
This stone as definitely served one function associated with standing stones - that of a marker. The road/track/route, in some form or other, has probably run alongside this stone for ever and a day! So, my question is - Are some of these big eratics really standing stones? A lot deserve some study.
The second thing I can mention is the Burren fauna and flora. Just 400 NW of this stone is a beautiful strectch of limestone pavement with an amazing variety of plantlife. It's a quiet road and not many people stop here, so it is reasonably unspoilt. Walking to the edge of this little plateau give you some great views too.
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_A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
 Leana (Co. Clare) |  Clogher (Co. Clare) |  Paddock Hill (Co. Wicklow) |
 Leana (Co. Clare) |
