Standing stones are among the most enduring features of the Irish landscape, typically megalithic pillars set vertically into the earth thousands of years ago and left largely undisturbed. This one, however, was reportedly taken down and interred in the bog around 1980, making it a monument that has effectively been hidden beneath the very terrain that often preserves such things.

Local accounts recorded before its removal described the stone as roughly 1.8 metres tall and noted that it was "more round than square" in cross-section, which distinguished it from the more angular, blade-like profile common to many Cork standing stones. Beyond those details, its deeper history is unrecorded. Who erected it, and when, remains unknown, as is true of most standing stones; their purposes, whether ceremonial, territorial, or astronomical, are still debated. What is more unusual here is the circumstances of its disappearance. Bog to the east of the original site would preserve organic material exceptionally well, but a stone of that size buried within living memory is not the kind of archaeological loss that comes from centuries of gradual submersion. It was a deliberate act, and the reasons behind it are not documented.