That is, precisely, the point. A standing stone that appears on the 1939 Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a solitary upright in waste ground has since been removed entirely, leaving no visible surface trace. The ground gives nothing away.

What makes this absence stranger is the stone's peculiar window of documented existence. It is absent from the 1842 OS six-inch map, and absent again from the 1904 revision, suggesting it either escaped the surveyors' notice during those earlier passes or was not yet standing in a form they considered worth recording. Then, in 1939, there it is, a single standing stone noted on the slope. Standing stones are among the most enduring prehistoric monument types in Ireland, simple dressed or undressed uprights set into the earth, sometimes associated with burials, sometimes with boundaries or ritual significance that remains genuinely unclear. They tend to outlast almost everything around them. This one did not. At some point after 1939 it was taken down, and the ground has since closed over whatever socket or packing stones might have anchored it.