The limestone block in the pasture at Castlequarter, County Tipperary, invites a more grounded interpretation. Measuring just 0.3 metres by 0.2 metres at its base and rising to a height of 1.16 metres, it is narrow, sub-rectangular in plan, and oriented north to south, with a notably flat top. That flat top is the telling detail: it has led to the suggestion that this stone may never have carried any ceremonial purpose at all, but was simply put in the ground for cattle to scratch themselves against.

The evidence around the base supports this reading. There is a worn depression in the earth where hooves and hides have worked the soil over many years, the quiet accumulation of animals doing exactly what animals do. Whether the stone is genuinely prehistoric or a much later agricultural fixture is not certain; the word "possible" attaches to its classification, and that ambiguity is part of what makes it interesting. A motte and bailey, the earthwork fortification type introduced to Ireland by the Anglo-Normans in the twelfth century, sits roughly 65 metres to the west, lending the surrounding landscape a layered quality without necessarily connecting directly to the stone itself. The two features simply share a field, neighbours across several possible centuries.