It was not toppled by time or weather, nor carried off for building material, as happened to so many of Ireland's prehistoric monuments. Someone simply dug it down into the earth, sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s, and left it there, underground and invisible, in a field that continued to be grazed as if nothing had changed.

Standing stones are among the most common prehistoric monuments in Ireland, yet their original purpose remains genuinely uncertain. They may have served as boundary markers, ritual focal points, or memorials, and most date from the Bronze Age. This particular example was recorded by Bowman in 1934 as measuring three feet nine inches in height with a girth of fourteen inches, a modest but perfectly typical upright, the kind that would have caught the eye from a distance across open farmland. By the time the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork documented the site, the stone had already been interred, its presence reduced to a note in a published volume and a slight uncertainty about what, exactly, lies a few feet below the pasture surface.