Standing stones are among the most enduring and least understood monuments in the Irish countryside, single upright blocks of stone erected during the Bronze Age or earlier, whose precise purposes remain debated. This one left so little trace in the official record that it never appeared on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of 1842 or 1905, which means its existence was either overlooked by the surveyors of both periods or the stone was already inconspicuous by the time they passed through.

What little is known places it on an east-facing slope in pasture ground. Its absence from two successive mapping surveys spanning over sixty years is itself a small puzzle. It may never have been especially tall or prominent, or it may have been obscured by vegetation or soil accumulation. By around 1968 it was gone entirely, cleared away as farmland was worked or reorganised, a fate that has befallen countless such monuments across Ireland. There is, however, a possible remnant: an overgrown stone lying beside a field fence to the north of the original location has been tentatively linked to it, though whether this is the same stone toppled and left, or simply an unrelated piece of field clearance, has not been confirmed.