In fact, there is nothing at all to see, which makes it, in its quiet way, one of the more thought-provoking entries in the archaeological record of Mid Cork. The stone appears on an Ordnance Survey six-inch map from 1938, marked plainly as a single standing stone on an east-facing slope in what was then pasture. But it was absent from the equivalent maps of 1842 and 1904, which raises a question the record does not answer: was it simply overlooked by earlier surveyors, or did it come to light, literally or figuratively, sometime in the intervening decades? Standing stones are among the most enduring prehistoric monuments in Ireland, typically erected during the Bronze Age and associated with burial sites, territorial markers, or ceremonial landscapes. This one, it seems, did not endure.

Sometime after 1938, the stone was removed. No surface trace remains. The slope where it once stood, facing east across whatever view that ground commands, gives no indication that anything was ever there. The gap between its appearance on one map and its absence from the ground is unaccounted for. Whether it was taken for a gatepost, broken up, or shifted during land improvement works is not recorded. What the documentary trail preserves is only the fact of its brief official existence, caught in a single cartographic moment between two long silences.