Visit the spot today and there is nothing to see. The stone has vanished, leaving only its cartographic ghost and a quiet question about what it once marked.

The stone's likely purpose gives that question some shape. It may have been an outlier, a standing stone positioned deliberately at a distance from a stone circle to serve as an astronomical or ceremonial marker, drawing the eye or aligning with a feature of the circle or the landscape. Stone circles of this type are well represented in Kerry's Iveragh and Beara peninsulas, and outliers, though not universal, are a recognised part of that prehistoric tradition. Whether this particular stone was always solitary or was once part of a more complex arrangement around the neighbouring circle is impossible to say now. What the 1897 map makes clear is that it was still standing, or at least still recorded as standing, in the final years of the nineteenth century. At some point between then and the present, it disappeared, through agricultural clearance, re-use as a field boundary, or simple subsidence into the soft ground.