The site is recorded as a gallaun, the Irish term for a standing stone, one of thousands of prehistoric upright stones erected across the island, most likely during the Bronze Age, whose precise purposes remain debated. But at Lisbabe, there is nothing left to see. The stone is gone, or rather, it is present only as an absence.

According to the landowner, the stone was broken during roadwork carried out by Kerry County Council in the 1940s. Whatever the original monument looked like, its fragments were moved and left at the side of the field, where they presumably remain, unrecognisable as anything in particular. It is a mundane ending for something that may have stood for three or four thousand years, caught not by deliberate clearance or religious zeal but by the ordinary business of road maintenance in mid-century rural Ireland.