Somewhere on a low knoll at Ballybrennock in County Waterford, there once stood a stone pile said to represent a man. The Irish name for the spot, 'an bréagán', roughly translates as 'the toy' or 'the plaything', though in older usage it could also suggest something artificial or imitative, which fits the description rather well. A cairn of this kind, built from dry stone without mortar and shaped or positioned to suggest a human figure, sits in an interesting category: somewhere between a territorial marker, a commemorative monument, and a piece of folk landscape-making whose original purpose has long since blurred.

The reference comes from Power's 1908 survey of Waterford antiquities, which recorded the tradition of a figured stone pile on the hill. What survives today is harder to read. The knoll is now covered by several clearance cairns, the kind of low, rough mounds that farmers accumulate over generations by gathering field stones and piling them out of the way of the plough. These practical heaps have either obscured the original monument entirely or been confused with it, making it impossible to say with confidence whether any trace of the older, intentional structure remains beneath or among them.