35 metres from the pasture land, its weathered form aligned northeast to southwest. This ancient monolith, measuring 0.74 metres wide, overlooks the Glentogher river where the land falls away to the east. Yet this lone sentinel may be all that remains of something far more substantial; in 1944, the landowner told researcher Colhoun that during his lifetime, an entire cairn had been dismantled here, leaving only this single stone as testament to what once stood on this spot.

The landowner’s account paints an intriguing picture of the lost monument. He described it as a long cairn that contained what he called ‘cross-stones’, features that led Colhoun to suspect this might have been a chambered grave with at least some of its roof stones still intact when it was destroyed. Local tradition adds another layer to the story, claiming that when other associated stones were removed around sixty years ago, the workers uncovered ‘large bones’, suggesting this site may indeed have served as an ancient burial place.

The standing stone has attracted scholarly attention since at least 1949, appearing in numerous archaeological surveys and inventories over the decades. Listed in Brian Lacy’s 1983 survey and subsequently recorded in the Sites and Monuments Record, it remains classified as an unclassified megalithic tomb, its true nature and original extent now lost to time and agricultural improvement. What survives is a tantalising fragment of Donegal’s prehistoric landscape; a single stone that hints at the chambered tomb or ceremonial cairn that once commanded this hillside above the Glentogher river.