Its very existence rests on a single description by the antiquarian Thomas Johnson Westropp, who noted a stone roughly a metre high and about ninety centimetres wide sitting in a field beside a structure locally known as the Pigeon House. That it was recorded at all feels somewhat accidental, and that it has since apparently vanished makes it stranger still.

The site sits within what were once the formal grounds of Old Abbey House, a ruined estate whose remains stand about 170 metres to the north. The wider complex is remarkable in its own right. Forty-five metres to the west of where the stone was noted stands a dovecote, a tower-like structure built to house pigeons kept as a source of food and fertiliser, common on larger estates from the medieval period onward. Closer still, roughly 90 metres to the northeast, are the remains of Monasternagalliaghduff, an Augustinian nunnery. Westropp placed the stone in the field immediately adjacent to the dovecote, describing it plainly and without ceremony, as was his habit. Whether it predates the nunnery and the estate entirely, as many standing stones do by several millennia, is not something the available record settles. By the time a Google Earth image was reviewed in April 2015, no surface remains could be identified.

The area around Oldabbey is accessible as farmland, and the remains of the nunnery and dovecote are the more reliably locatable features for anyone approaching the site. The stone, if it persists at all, would sit in pasture approximately 45 metres east of the dovecote. There is nothing dramatic to search for here; the record describes a modest, unremarkable-looking block of stone, and the honest likelihood is that it has been buried, removed, or simply subsumed into the landscape over the decades since Westropp passed through. What remains is the note itself, and the faint outline of a field that once contained something old enough to warrant writing down.