It is the kind of site that leaves almost no trace, the archaeology reduced to a map reference and a note that the thing is gone.

What little the cartographic record reveals is quietly interesting. The stone does not appear on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of 1842 or 1904, which is unusual. Standing stones, the single upright slabs of prehistoric origin erected across Ireland for purposes that remain genuinely uncertain, tend to be among the more durable and consistently recorded monuments in the landscape. Their absence from two successive surveys could mean any number of things: that the stone was obscured by vegetation, that a surveyor judged it unremarkable, or that it was still buried or fallen at both dates. By 1937, however, it had been mapped, marked simply as a single standing stone. At some point after that it was removed, and a modern house with a garden was built on the site.