In the townland of Tuogh in County Limerick's Owneybeg barony, a bullaun stone, a boulder or slab bearing one or more deliberately carved cup-shaped hollows, was once known to local people as a square flat stone carrying four circles. That description, precise and vernacular at once, is now the most complete record that exists of the object. The stone itself has vanished.

Bullaun stones are found across Ireland, often close to early ecclesiastical sites, and are thought to date broadly to the early medieval period, though their original function remains debated. Some were likely used for grinding, others may have held water used in ritual or devotional practice. The Tuogh example was recorded as lying on a south-east-facing slope in gently rolling pasture, approximately fifty metres south-west of Tuogh graveyard, a registered monument in its own right. The description was gathered from local information and compiled by Denis Power, with the record uploaded in October 2013. Even at the time of that survey, the stone was no longer evident at the location described.

For anyone visiting the area, Tuogh graveyard itself remains a reference point, and the general landscape, quietly agricultural and unhurried, gives some sense of the setting in which this kind of early carved stonework once sat unremarkably in a field. The stone's absence is itself the salient fact here. It may have been moved, repurposed, buried, or simply lost beneath vegetation or soil over time, fates that have claimed many such objects across the country. What the record preserves is the memory of four circles cut into a square flat stone on a gentle slope in Limerick, and the knowledge that someone once thought it worth describing.