That shift from vertical to horizontal is the quiet crux of its story. Standing stones are among the most enduring and least understood monuments in the Irish landscape, raised during prehistoric times for purposes that remain contested, whether as boundary markers, ritual focal points, or memorials. This one now measures 2.2 metres in length and 0.9 metres by 0.55 metres in cross-section, substantial enough that its removal from its original socket would have required considerable effort.

The stone's displacement appears to have happened sometime in the twentieth century. A researcher named Condon, writing in 1916, recorded it as upright and in its original position. At that point it had already escaped the attention of the Ordnance Survey cartographers who produced the six-inch maps of 1842 and 1904, meaning it went unrecorded in two of the most systematic documentation exercises Ireland had seen. By the time the site was assessed more recently, the stone had been moved roughly nine metres to the north of where Condon found it, and now rests against a field boundary. Whether it was shifted to clear ground for agriculture or simply fell and was dragged aside is not recorded.