The uncertainty is itself the most interesting thing about it. By 1987, the stone was no longer visible above the pasture, swallowed quietly by the land it had occupied, possibly for millennia.

The stone appears on the 1940 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which places it at the head of a small valley running roughly north-west to south-east. When it was recorded in 1939, it was described as squat and low, with a rectangular cross-section at ground level measuring approximately 1.15 metres along its north-west to south-east axis and around 0.95 metres across. A ridge ran along the same north-west to south-east line, and the whole stone stood only about a metre high. Standing stones are among the most enduring and least understood monuments in the Irish landscape, erected during the Bronze Age or earlier and interpreted variously as boundary markers, memorials, or indicators of burial sites. This one was never especially imposing, even when intact and upright. By the time anyone thought to look again, nearly half a century after its first formal description, the pasture had closed over it entirely.