The stone was removed sometime in the 1970s, leaving behind only a cartographic ghost: its outline persists on a revised Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, marking a presence that the landscape itself no longer holds. This kind of absence is, in its own way, as telling as survival. Standing stones are among the most enduring prehistoric monument types in Ireland, raised as boundary markers, ceremonial points, or memorials over thousands of years, and yet here is one that outlasted the ancient world only to disappear in the late twentieth century.

When it was recorded in 1940, the stone was already in a reduced state, described as a rectangular stump measuring roughly 1.95 metres east to west, about 0.6 metres north to south, and somewhere between 0.75 and one metre in height. Those dimensions suggest something that had once been considerably more imposing, worn or broken down over time to a low, broad block rather than the upright pillar the name implies. Its position on the south-facing slope of Tara Hill would have given it a commanding aspect over the surrounding lowland, which may or may not have been part of whatever original purpose it served. No record survives of why or by whom it was removed in the 1970s.