Yet this stone in the townland of Lackdotia appears on neither the 1842 nor the 1904 Ordnance Survey six-inch maps, meaning it went unrecorded in official cartography for well over a century after the first systematic mapping of Ireland. It stands 3.1 metres tall, irregular in plan and measuring 1.3 metres by 0.85 metres at its base, set into a north-west-facing slope among rough grazing land. At some point it was absorbed into a north-south townland boundary fence, which has likely helped it survive, even if that same incorporation makes it harder to see as a purely prehistoric object.

The stone carries one small but curious detail: a circular depression on its west face near ground level, roughly 25 centimetres in diameter and 12 centimetres deep. Whether this is a natural feature of the rock or was deliberately worked is not certain, but small cup-like hollows on standing stones are known elsewhere in Ireland and are generally considered prehistoric in origin. What lends the site a more melancholy character is what lies about 60 metres to the south: the remains, now destroyed, of three boulder burials. Boulder burials are a prehistoric monument type found mainly in Munster, consisting of a large capstone resting on smaller supporting stones and typically associated with Bronze Age funerary practice. Their destruction near Lackdotia means that whatever relationship they may once have had with the standing stone, spatially or ceremonially, can no longer be read in the landscape.