Not dramatically, not romantically, but literally: the site at Máistir Gaoithe has been swallowed by plantation forestry and is now considered inaccessible to anyone who might want to find it. The stone itself is a gallaun, the Irish term for a single upright standing stone, usually prehistoric in origin and often associated with burial, boundary-marking, or ritual landscape features that we can no longer fully interpret. This one simply stands, unseen, somewhere beneath a canopy of conifers.

The stone appears on both the first and second editions of the Ordnance Survey maps, marked with the name "Gallaun", which suggests it was a known and recognised feature of the local landscape by the nineteenth century, when those surveys were carried out. Its location is recorded as less than 100 metres south-east of another nearby monument on the Iveragh Peninsula, placing it within a stretch of south Kerry that, as documented by archaeologists Aidan O'Sullivan and Jerry Sheehan in their 1996 survey of the peninsula, contains a remarkable concentration of prehistoric remains. That the stone was significant enough to earn a named designation on the OS maps, yet now sits beyond reach, gives it a particular quality: catalogued, located, and completely cut off.