The one recorded at Ballinacarrig, on the southern slope of Tara Hill in County Wexford, seems to have taken the opposite path, quietly disappearing from view altogether. By 1987, it was no longer visible at ground level, leaving behind only a cartographic footnote and a set of measurements to confirm it ever stood there at all.

The stone appears on the 1940 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, placed on a gentle south-facing slope at the base of Tara Hill. When it was recorded that same year, it was described as a rectangular block, roughly 1.3 metres long, about 25 centimetres wide, and standing somewhere between 1.05 and 1.15 metres tall. Those are modest but respectable dimensions for a standing stone, the kind of upright prehistoric marker found scattered across Ireland, typically associated with the Bronze Age, though rarely with any certainty about their original purpose. Whether it fell, was buried, was removed for use as building material, or simply sank gradually into the hillside soil is not recorded. Sometime between 1940 and 1987, it vanished.

Tara Hill itself, rising above the coastline near Gorey, lends the site a certain resonance. The name echoes the more famous Hill of Tara in County Meath, and while no direct connection is established, the presence of a prehistoric marker on its southern flank suggests the hill held some significance to the people who shaped this landscape long before maps were drawn. What remains today is essentially absence, a place where something once stood, recorded in a handful of figures and a single map edition, and then gone.