It was once upright, a standing stone of the kind erected across Ireland from the Bronze Age onward, often as markers, boundary indicators, or focal points within a ritual landscape. Now it is horizontal, leaning quietly against a boundary it may once have presided over.

What makes this particular stone slightly puzzling is its absence from the Ordnance Survey's six-inch maps of 1842 and 1904. Those surveys were meticulous documents of the Irish landscape, and a two-metre standing stone is not an easy thing to miss. It appears for the first time on the 1938 revision of the same map series, placed on the southern side of what may be a ringfort, the circular earthwork enclosures, typically dating from the early medieval period, that served as farmsteads and defensible homesteads across rural Ireland. Whether the stone was genuinely overlooked by earlier surveyors, or whether it was recognised at the time but not recorded as a monument, is unclear. The association with the possible ringfort is suggestive; standing stones were sometimes incorporated into or positioned near later enclosures, their original purpose absorbed into a new pattern of land use. At some point after 1938 the stone fell, and it has remained on the ground since, its original orientation and precise relationship to the earthwork now difficult to read.