A standing stone that has been uprooted and replanted twice is not quite the ancient, immovable monument the category implies. This tapering granite pillar in Greatconnell, County Kildare, rises to 1.9 metres and sits near the highest point of a gravel ridge, which would have made it a conspicuous landmark across the surrounding landscape for whoever first erected it. What complicates its story, and makes it genuinely odd, are two small depressions on its north and south faces, interpreted as possible mortices, the kind of sockets cut to receive the arms of a cross. If that reading is correct, this prehistoric or early medieval standing stone was at some point adapted into a cross, layering one devotional function on top of another.

The stone was removed from its original position in 1979 and re-erected at Baroda stud within the same Greatconnell townland, before being moved again at a later date. Its current precise location is therefore uncertain. The 1979 date places it in a period when agricultural improvement and development frequently disturbed monuments of this kind across Ireland, and the removal was recorded by Meagher in 1979 to 1980. Adding further depth to the site is the discovery of burials in the general area since the late 1940s. The proximity of a standing stone to burial activity is not unusual in an Irish context, where such stones often marked territory, boundaries, or places of repeated significance across centuries, but it does suggest this ridge had a long and layered history of human use before anyone thought to dig it up and move it.

The stone's rectangular cross-section, measuring roughly 0.4 metres by 0.3 metres at the base and narrowing noticeably toward the top, gives it a clean, functional profile rather than the dramatic height of the larger prehistoric pillars found elsewhere in Leinster. It is the details, the possible mortices, the relocated history, the buried dead nearby, that reward closer attention.