What makes the spot quietly curious is not so much what survives as what has been lost. Beside this upright stone, a small enclosure once existed, and now it does not.

In 1914, a researcher named Redington recorded a faint rectangular enclosure on the south side of the standing stone, measuring approximately 12 feet, or 3.65 metres, square. Enclosures of this kind, low-walled or ditched perimeters often associated with early ecclesiastical or funerary sites, are easily overlooked even when intact, and this one was already faint by the time Redington noted it. By 1954, when Killanin documented the site, it had left no visible trace at all. The schist slab itself persists, a metamorphic stone common to parts of Connacht, shaped by heat and pressure into the kind of thin, layered rock that lends itself to being set upright. Whether it ever served as a grave marker, a boundary post, or something else entirely is not recorded.