No cartographer thought it worth recording, yet there it stands on a hilltop in Ownagarry, west of the Cottoners river, quietly occupying the same ground it has held for millennia. That absence from official mapping is itself a small curiosity, a reminder of how much the Irish landscape still holds outside the documented record.

The stone rises to a height of 1.25 metres from a base measuring roughly 1.05 metres by 0.8 metres, oriented east to west, and its profile is irregular rather than cleanly tapered, the kind of raw, unworked monument that prehistoric communities raised across the island for purposes that remain genuinely unclear. What is clear is the company it keeps: approximately 30 metres to the south-east lies the rath known as Lisnafelimy. A rath, or ringfort, is an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, typically bounded by an earthen bank and ditch, and thousands survive across Ireland. Whether the standing stone and the rath were ever understood by the people who used both as part of the same meaningful landscape is impossible to say now, but the proximity is suggestive. The stone almost certainly predates the rath by a considerable stretch, possibly by thousands of years, and it is the kind of layered coincidence of monuments that turns up regularly on Irish hilltops where ground was simply too poor or too sacred to cultivate away.