By 1983 it had already vanished entirely, leaving no surface trace, and aerial photography has confirmed that nothing remains visible. What lingers is the paper record: two nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey documents, the 1837 six-inch map and the accompanying Fair Plan, both marking the spot clearly and labelling it a standing stone, positioned to the west of the canal.

Standing stones are among the most enigmatic monuments in the Irish landscape, raised during prehistory for purposes that remain genuinely unclear, whether as boundary markers, ritual focal points, or memorials. This one was ordinary enough in its placement, set into flat agricultural ground rather than on any commanding height, and its proximity to a townland boundary hints that it may have served some territorial function over a very long span of time, long enough, at least, to still be cartographically noted in the 1830s. What happened between that mapping and the 1983 inspection is unrecorded. Agricultural improvement, drainage works, or simple clearance of inconvenient stones from productive ground could each account for its disappearance. The canal nearby, part of the Royal Canal network that passes through Westmeath, was itself a product of eighteenth and nineteenth-century improvement schemes that reshaped the land considerably. The stone may have been a casualty of that same appetite for rationalising the landscape.