Whether it still stands, leans, or has long since been swallowed by the ground beneath it is, for now, an open question. The site has not been located, defeated by heavy overgrowth that has closed in around it and made any confident identification impossible.

Standing stones are among the most quietly ambiguous monuments in the Irish landscape. Erected singly or in small groupings, usually during the Bronze Age, they survive in their thousands across the country, yet their original purpose remains genuinely uncertain. Boundary markers, ceremonial focal points, memorials, astronomical indicators; all have been proposed, and for most individual examples no firm answer exists. What can be said of the Drishane stone is minimal: its recorded position at the foot of a slope with a southerly aspect is the kind of topographical detail that recurs in standing stone distributions across Munster, where such monuments were often placed in relation to the lie of the land rather than at its highest or most visible point. Beyond that, the vegetation has, for the time being, had the last word.