In the 1940s, someone documenting the graveyard associated with Kilsthorne church in Pullingstown Big noted the presence of carved stonework, most likely the remains of a pointed doorway. A pointed or Gothic-arched doorway of this kind would typically indicate medieval ecclesiastical construction, the kind of careful dressing of stone that marked out a church building from its surroundings. When the site was revisited in 1987, the fragment could no longer be identified. It had not necessarily gone anywhere. It may simply have become indistinguishable from the general scatter of stone that accumulates around old graveyards over the centuries, buried, repositioned, or overgrown.

The setting itself is quietly specific. The site sits in a slight fold on a west-facing slope, with the headwaters of a small stream running roughly northeast to southwest just south of the graveyard. That kind of sheltered, watered position is typical of early Irish ecclesiastical sites, where a reliable water source and a degree of natural enclosure were practical as much as symbolic considerations. Kilsthorne church, to which the graveyard belongs, is the parent monument here, and the fragment, whatever it once formed part of, was a secondary record attached to that broader site. The gap between its first documentation in the 1940s and its disappearance from view by 1987 is a small but telling example of how architectural evidence can slip out of the record not through any dramatic event, but simply through the slow attrition of time and the difficulty of keeping track of loose stonework in active burial grounds.