The stone does not appear on any Ordnance Survey Ireland historic maps, and by the time satellite imagery was captured between 2005 and 2018, the surrounding land had been planted with forestry, placing the monument inside an exclusion zone that renders it effectively invisible from above. Three separate aerial and satellite surveys, including OSi orthoimages, a Digital Globe orthophoto, and a Google Earth capture from June 2018, all fail to show it. For a standing stone, a category of monument whose whole purpose seems to have been visibility, there is something quietly striking about one that has been so thoroughly obscured.

Standing stones are among the most enigmatic survivals in the Irish landscape, upright slabs or pillars erected during prehistory for purposes that remain debated, ranging from ritual to boundary marking to commemoration. This particular example was identified and recorded by Rose M. Cleary of the Archaeology Department at University College Cork. Before the forestry took hold, the remains consisted of a low, upright pillar stone with a narrow rectangular profile, set in rough pasture on ground that is wet and cut through by land drains and watercourses. The dampness of the terrain is itself worth noting; low-lying, poorly drained land was not always avoided by prehistoric communities, and monuments in such locations can be among the least disturbed precisely because the ground has made them difficult to farm intensively. The record was compiled by Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly and uploaded in September 2020.

Accessing this site presents real difficulties. The forestry planting that has enclosed the monument means it is not visible on recent aerial imagery, and there is no indication it is marked or waymarked on the ground. Visitors interested in the monument should be aware that the surrounding terrain is wet and heavily drained, and the exclusion zone within the plantation may restrict approach. The stone's low profile, described as a narrow rectangular elevation, means it would require careful searching even in open ground. Anyone hoping to locate it would do well to consult the photographic record held alongside the formal archaeological entry, supplied by Rose M. Cleary, which offers the clearest indication of what the stone looks like and where, precisely, it sits within that increasingly dense and unforgiving landscape.