Removed around 1981, it survives now only in cartographic traces and local memory, where it was known simply as the "scratching stone", a name that suggests cattle made rather more practical use of it than any ceremonial purpose might have intended.

The stone's documentary history is quietly puzzling. It does not appear on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of either 1842 or 1904, which were generally thorough in recording prehistoric monuments. It surfaces only on the 1938 edition, marked as a single standing stone on an east-facing slope in pasture. Whether it was genuinely overlooked by earlier surveyors, or whether its significance was simply not recognised at the time, is unclear. Standing stones are among the most common prehistoric monument types in Ireland, raised during the Bronze Age and possibly earlier, though their precise function remains contested. Most stood alone in the landscape for millennia; this one, having survived that long, was gone within roughly four decades of being formally recorded.