That kind of quiet displacement, a prehistoric marker quietly shifted within living memory, is more common than it might seem, but it gives this particular stone an air of gentle uncertainty that is hard to shake.

The stone is one of four objects described as dallans in the area, a dallan being a tall, pillar-like standing stone, typically early medieval in character and sometimes associated with commemorative or boundary functions. Researcher Bowman, writing in 2000, catalogued this example along with three others on land belonging to a Mr. O'Reilly in Mahanagh townland. Bowman recorded the stone as standing roughly two feet (about 0.6 metres) high, with a girth of thirteen feet three inches (just over four metres), making it a low but substantially broad object rather than the slender upright pillar one might imagine. Its position was noted as approximately 500 yards south of another stone in the group. By the time the site was revisited for more recent documentation, the stone had been removed from its recorded location, though the landowner was on hand to indicate where it had stood. The best current theory is that it is one of two stones now lying in the south-east corner of the same field, though which of the two it might be remains unconfirmed.