Neither the Ordnance Survey six-inch edition of 1837 nor the more detailed twenty-five-inch edition of 1913 recorded it, which raises a question that the stone itself cannot answer: was it simply overlooked, or was it not yet considered worth noting?

When archaeologists described it in 1983, what they found was modest by any measure, a stone of roughly half a metre in height, rectangular at its base and tapering to a point at the top. Standing stones of this kind are among the most ancient and least legible of Irish monuments, erected anywhere from the Bronze Age onward, often as solitary markers whose original purpose, whether territorial, funerary, or ritual, has long since dissolved into the landscape. This one, sitting on its low knoll with modern houses visible to the north, has since become harder still to pin down. It does not appear on aerial photography, which suggests it may now be obscured, fallen, or otherwise no longer visible from above.