That uncertainty is precisely what makes this particular site worth knowing about. By 1987, the stone on Coolintaggarthill could no longer be found at ground level, leaving open the question of whether it had fallen, been buried, been removed, or simply eluded the person who went looking for it.

The stone appears on the 1940 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which suggests it was at least visible and notable enough to record within living memory of that survey. When it was described in 1939, it was a modest but reasonably well-defined object: roughly rectangular in cross-section, about forty centimetres by thirty-five centimetres wide, standing approximately one metre tall, with a noticeably flat top. Standing stones are among the most common prehistoric monument types in Ireland, typically dating from the Neolithic or Bronze Age, though their original purpose remains debated. They may have marked boundaries, burial sites, astronomical alignments, or routes across the landscape. This one sat at the northern end of a north-south ridge spur, at the crest of an east-facing slope, with Laraheen Hill rising immediately to the north, a position that at least hints at some deliberate relationship with the surrounding topography.

What a visitor would find today is harder to say. The stone was already unaccounted for nearly four decades ago, and no subsequent record appears to have confirmed its recovery. The location itself, a hilltop spur with elevated ground close by, would have offered wide views to the east, though whether the stone is still there beneath the soil, or gone entirely, remains an open question.