Such stones are found across Ireland, often near ecclesiastical sites, and their precise original purpose remains debated, though they are associated with early Christian and pre-Christian ritual use. What makes this particular example notable is not its survival, but its absence: sometime before 1987, it vanished.

The stone had been documented well enough to leave a clear picture. Writing in 1980, Cunningham described it as a shallow, broken bullaun lying among the chapel ruins. A photograph published by Swinfen in 1992 shows a rough, roughly circular boulder with a single basin set towards one edge of its upper surface, the kind of quiet, worn object that tends to be overlooked until it is gone. Spellissy, writing in 1987, recorded that it had already disappeared by that point, leaving the chapel ruins without one of their few surviving features of historical interest. Whether it was removed, buried, or simply lost to the gradual disorder of an unmanaged ruin is not recorded.