It is not upright, not ceremonial-looking, not doing what a standing stone is supposed to do. That quiet indignity is the point. What was once one of a pair of prehistoric stones, placed deliberately in a landscape, has been reduced to a piece of field furniture, propped at an angle where it causes no inconvenience to anyone.

According to Office of Public Works topographical files from 1929, the two stones originally stood roughly 12 metres apart in the corner of a pasture field, close to a sharp bend in a river. That kind of paired arrangement is not unusual in the Irish prehistoric record; standing stones were sometimes set in alignment or in loose groupings, their original purpose now largely a matter of speculation. What is more precisely documented is what happened to them. In 1926, both stones were removed from their original positions. One, measuring approximately 1.37 metres tall, 0.7 metres wide, and 0.25 metres thick, and possibly already missing a portion that had broken off, was laid against a fence at the narrow southern end of the field. The other was buried. The 1929 files were compiled three years after the fact, preserving a record of something that had already been undone.

What remains at the site today is an approximate location rather than a monument. The river bend is still there, and the field boundary, but the stone itself is no longer standing in any meaningful sense. It is a reminder that the attrition of prehistoric sites in Ireland has often been quiet and practical, driven not by ideology but by the ordinary pressures of farming land, clearing corners, and getting things out of the way.