At Rahan in County Cork, a substantial stone, measuring 1.73 metres in length and roughly 0.8 metres wide, was at some point before living memory already absent from the official cartographic record. Neither the 1842 nor the 1905 Ordnance Survey six-inch maps show it, which suggests it occupied an uncertain or already marginal status even then. Sometime around 1980, it was removed from its original position on a south-facing slope in pastureland, and now lies beside a field fence to the east of where it once stood.

Standing stones are among the most enigmatic of Irish prehistoric monuments. Erected singly or in small groupings, usually during the Bronze Age, their original purposes remain debated, with theories ranging from boundary markers to ritual or astronomical functions. This particular example, though no longer upright, retains its physical presence: at nearly two metres long, it is not a small or incidental piece of stone. Its removal, likely a practical decision made during agricultural work, is not unusual. Across Ireland, standing stones have been toppled, repositioned, or incorporated into field boundaries over centuries of land use. What makes this one worth noting is that its dislocation is documented, its original location recorded separately from its present one, the two now carrying distinct record numbers as though the stone and its former place are treated as separate facts.