On a south-west-facing slope of Mweeling Hill in County Waterford, there is a sandstone monolith that, at some point before 2010, quietly gave up the effort of standing and toppled over. That small, undramatic fact sets it apart from the majority of Ireland's standing stones, which still do what the name suggests. This one, measuring 1.6 metres in height with a subrectangular cross-section of roughly half a metre by 35 centimetres, now lies where it fell, oriented along a northeast-southwest axis, its original alignment preserved even in its prostrate state.

Standing stones are among the most enigmatic monuments in the Irish landscape. Erected during the Bronze Age in most cases, their precise purposes remain debated, with suggestions ranging from territorial markers to ritual or astronomical functions. This particular example is a sandstone monolith, placed on the slope with the col, the low saddle of ground between Broemountain and Mweeling Hill, lying roughly 250 metres to the northwest. That relationship between the stone and the local topography may or may not be coincidental, but it is the kind of detail that tends to reward attention. About 30 metres to the east, there is a possible hut site, which raises the question of whether the stone and the settlement, if that is what it is, were ever connected in use or in time, though no firm conclusion can be drawn from what is currently known.