On the Kerry coast near Buddaghauns, the Ordnance Survey's six-inch map of 1846 marks a gallaun, the Irish term for a standing stone, a single upright megalith typically raised in prehistory as a boundary marker, memorial, or ritual focal point. Today, there are no visible remains of it whatsoever.

What the 1846 map does show, immediately to the west of where the gallaun was recorded, is a cliff-edge fort, a defensive enclosure built right to the brink of a coastal precipice, using the drop itself as one wall of its perimeter. The gallaun sat just to the east of this structure. Whether the two were connected in any meaningful sense, whether the stone predated the fort or was contemporary with it, is impossible to say now. The stone is gone, its absence quietly confirmed by the archaeological record, which notes simply that no visible remains survive. What the 1846 surveyors saw, or inferred from local knowledge or earthwork traces, has since vanished entirely from the ground.