It was buried around 1989 when the wall that held it was demolished, and the spot where it once sat is now the gateway to a modern house. What makes this loss particularly pointed is that the stone, a slab of clay-slate set into that wall, carried an inscription that connected it to one of the most powerful Gaelic lords in seventeenth-century Munster.

The topographer Samuel Lewis, writing in 1837, recorded the inscription as it then appeared: D.E.O.C. 1686. H.F. Fecit. Lewis read this as an abbreviation pointing to Donald, Earl of Clancarty, with the Latin "fecit" meaning "made" or "caused to be made", suggesting the stone was erected at his direction in 1686. The Earls of Clancarty were the MacCarthy Mór line, among the great Gaelic dynasties of Munster, and 1686 falls just a few years before the Williamite Wars would strip them of their estates entirely. There is an added layer of curiosity in the location itself. The 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map marks a feature called "St Gobnet's Stone" at what appears to be roughly the same spot. St Gobnet is a early medieval saint closely associated with this part of Cork, particularly with Ballyvourney nearby, and whether the inscribed stone and the saint's stone were one and the same object, or two different stones sharing a location across the centuries, is not clear from what survives.