In reality, the stone in Drumoghty More is neither prehistoric nor monumental. It is a thin slab, barely sixty centimetres tall and seven centimetres thick, set into the ground at the bottom of an east-facing slope in mixed woodland. What makes it quietly odd is the gap between what it appears to be and what it actually is: a devotional marker from the eighteenth century, its inscription now almost entirely worn away, retaining only the date 1775.

When the stone's surface could still be read, in the 1830s, it was recorded as bearing the words: 'Pray for Mark Meuly by whom this cross was erected in honour of St. Patrick, 1775.' A century later, in the 1930s Schools' Manuscripts, a local version of the text was set down slightly differently: 'IHS Pray for the soul of Mark Meale by whom this stone was erected in honour to Saint Patrick 1775.' The two transcriptions differ on the man's surname and on small points of phrasing, but both agree on the essentials: a man named Mark, a personal act of devotion to Patrick, and the year 1775. The 'IHS' recorded in the later version is a Christogram, a centuries-old abbreviation of the name of Jesus used widely in Catholic devotional contexts. The stone sits directly beside Tober Patrick, a holy well dedicated to St Patrick, and the pairing of the two makes plain the religious logic of the place. Holy wells in Ireland were, and in many places still are, sites of localised pilgrimage and prayer, and a privately commissioned stone erected beside one was a deliberate act of public piety as much as personal commemoration.

The woodland setting means the stone is easy to miss, and the inscription that once explained its purpose has faded beyond legibility for most of it, leaving only the date as a legible anchor. The proximity to the holy well is the most reliable way to locate it once in the area.