The site is recorded, mapped, and catalogued, yet anyone walking the pasture there today would find no surface trace whatsoever. It is the archaeological equivalent of a footnote to a footnote.

What makes the Knockaneady site quietly instructive is the story told by comparing two Ordnance Survey maps made sixty years apart. The 1842 survey recorded three stones here; by 1902, only one was marked. What happened in those intervening decades is unrecorded. Stones of this kind, standing stones erected during prehistory and used across millennia as markers, boundary indicators, or monuments of uncertain ritual purpose, were frequently removed by landowners clearing fields for agriculture, broken up for building material, or simply pushed into the ground and forgotten. At Knockaneady, the process appears to have continued past 1902, since even that final survivor has left no trace above the grass. The site sits in pasture, which suggests the land has been in continuous agricultural use, the most common reason such monuments disappear so thoroughly and so quietly.