It does not appear on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of 1842 or 1904, which is unusual in itself, since prehistoric standing stones were typically recorded by the OS surveyors with reasonable diligence. Then, on the 1938 six-inch map, it appears, marked plainly as a single standing stone on a west-facing slope in pasture. Somewhere between that mapping and the present day, it vanished. No surface trace remains.

The stone's absence from the Victorian and Edwardian surveys is curious. It may simply have been overlooked, or it may have been partially buried and only exposed or re-erected in the intervening decades before being removed again. Standing stones in Ireland range in date from the Neolithic through to the early medieval period, and their original purposes are rarely certain; they have been associated with burials, land boundaries, astronomical alignments, and ritual functions, often several at once depending on the period. Whatever this particular stone once marked or commemorated in the fields above Garryadeen, it was apparently present and notable enough by 1938 to earn a cartographer's symbol, and then gone again before anyone thought to give it much further attention.