What draws attention here is precisely that absence: the entry survives in the archaeological record, but the stone itself was broken into pieces and removed sometime in the mid-1960s, leaving the hillside pasture with nothing visible to show for it.

The stone, which stood roughly 1.3 metres tall, occupied a quietly significant position immediately outside the south-west corner of a children's burial ground, known in Irish tradition as a cillín, a type of unconsecrated ground where unbaptised infants and others excluded from church burial were interred, often at the margins of fields or beside older, pre-Christian features. Whether the stone's proximity to the burial ground was incidental or reflected some older relationship between the two is now impossible to say. Local information recorded the circumstances of its loss: the stone was broken apart and carted away during the mid-1960s, a period when agricultural improvement and land clearance across rural Ireland saw many such features quietly disappear. The site at Maunvough is classified as a possible standing stone, meaning even before its removal there was some uncertainty about whether it was a deliberate prehistoric monument or a large natural glacial erratic that had been given a prominent position in the landscape by chance.