The site sits on rough grazing land across a slight south-facing slope, yet anyone who goes looking will find no visible surface trace of a stone. That absence is not simply a matter of a monument being lost or fallen; it raises a more puzzling question about whether the stone was ever correctly located in the first place.

Ordnance Survey maps from 1904 and 1938 both fail to show any standing stone at this precise location, which is significant given that such maps were generally attentive to prehistoric monuments. The suspicion is that the recorded position was confused with that of a separate standing stone in the adjoining field to the east. Standing stones, usually single upright slabs of local stone set into the ground in the prehistoric period, are common enough across Cork and Munster, though their original purposes remain debated. The result here is an entry that describes not quite a monument but a kind of archival uncertainty, a place where a stone might once have stood, or might have been misidentified, or both.