Not toppled, not broken, not quietly forgotten beneath encroaching soil, but lowered into a prepared hole and covered over. The detail, recorded with an almost offhand brevity, is what makes this site unusual: not a monument that fell or was cleared away for farming convenience, but one that was intentionally interred.

The stone was one of two standing stones noted in Derrygalun by Bowman in 1934, the record citing it as being on land belonging to a P. Murphy. The note reads simply that a hole was dug at the base and the stone, referred to by the old Irish term "dallan", a word used for a small standing stone or pillar, was buried. Local information placed it in a field to the north-east of the field containing a nearby graveyard. Why it was buried rather than removed is not recorded. Standing stones of this kind are prehistoric monuments, typically dating from the Bronze Age, raised for purposes that remain only partially understood, whether to mark boundaries, burials, or ritual landscapes. To bury one rather than demolish it suggests either a degree of residual respect or, at least, a reluctance to simply break it apart. The exact location within the field was not known even at the time of recording, which means the stone may still be there, underground, orientation unknown, waiting.