A University College Cork archaeology department map marks the spot with the Irish word "gallaun", the traditional term for a standing stone, a single upright block erected in prehistory for purposes that remain genuinely uncertain. The gallaun at Knockyrourke, however, offers no upright block to examine. A house and its garden now occupy the site, and no surface trace of the stone remains.

This kind of quiet disappearance is not unusual in the Irish archaeological record. Standing stones are vulnerable precisely because they are solitary. Without the visual drama of a ringfort or the protected status that sometimes attaches to larger monument complexes, a lone gallaun can be absorbed into field clearance, used as a building material, or simply buried beneath successive layers of landscaping over centuries. What makes Knockyrourke slightly poignant is that the cartographic record survived even after the physical one did not. The stone was noted, named, and plotted, and then the ground moved on without it.