Not toppled and left lying, not buried and forgotten in the usual way, but removed entirely, leaving no visible trace on the surface. It is the kind of absence that is almost more interesting than a presence would be.

What makes this site particularly curious is the narrow documentary window in which the stone appears. The Ordnance Survey mapped the area in 1842 and again in 1904, and on neither occasion did the stone merit a mark. By 1939, however, a revised six-inch OS map records it clearly as a single standing stone. That gap raises quiet questions. Was the stone overlooked by earlier surveyors, already leaning low or partly obscured in pasture grass? Had it been re-erected, or perhaps only then recognised for what it was? Standing stones in Ireland are generally prehistoric in origin, raised as boundary markers, ritual monuments, or occasionally grave indicators, though their precise purposes remain contested. Whatever this one signified, its appearance in the cartographic record lasted less than a generation before it was gone from the ground altogether.