It was not demolished or broken up but simply removed around 1983 and interred under new farm buildings, which makes its fate stranger than outright destruction. The stone still exists, in theory, just no longer accessible to anyone or anything above ground.

What makes this loss easier to measure is a description recorded by Bowman in 1934, which noted the stone stood 9 feet 7 inches tall with a girth of 14 feet 5 inches. That is a substantial monolith, broad enough at its base to suggest real presence in a field. Standing stones of this type are a common but still poorly understood feature of the Irish Bronze Age landscape, erected as boundary markers, astronomical indicators, or focal points for ritual activity, though no single explanation covers all cases. This particular stone had already slipped below the attention of the Ordnance Survey by 1842, absent from the 6-inch mapping of that year, which suggests it may have been lying flat or partially obscured even then. By the time anyone thought to formally record it, the twentieth century was already closing in.