It is a small but telling example of how the archaeological record and the physical landscape can quietly diverge.

The stone belongs to a group of four monuments recorded in Mahanagh, all of them described as dallans. A dallan is a type of early standing stone, sometimes associated with early Christian or pre-Christian ritual use, and the term is used in Cork particularly for relatively modest upright stones of this kind. Researcher Bowman, writing in 2000, documented this particular stone as sitting roughly 30 yards west of a companion stone, standing just nine inches above ground level with a girth of six feet seven inches, suggesting that what was visible was only the upper portion of a considerably more substantial mass. The location was identified with the help of the landowner at the time of recording, though by the time the inventory was compiled the stone had already been shifted from its original position. Whether it was moved deliberately, accidentally, or simply as a consequence of agricultural work is not recorded.