It leaves no visible surface trace, and the ground gives nothing away. A pasture on a north-facing slope is all that remains of whatever this site once was, the stone itself having been removed at some point after it was recorded.

The history of the stone, such as it can be reconstructed, is largely a history of its documentation. It does not appear on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map produced in 1842, which is itself a small puzzle, since the OS mapping of that period was generally thorough in noting prehistoric monuments. By 1938, however, a revised six-inch map marked it clearly as a single standing stone. Standing stones are among the most enigmatic of Irish prehistoric monuments, typically dating to the Bronze Age and associated variously with boundaries, burial, or ritual, though their precise purpose at any given site is rarely certain. Whatever its original function at Cathair Daithí, the stone was evidently still present when the mid-twentieth-century surveyors passed through. At some point after that, it was taken down or moved, leaving neither the stone nor any record of why.