The Irish placename "Ban na gCloch" translates as "field of the pillar-stones", a plural that hints at a prehistoric grouping of standing stones. There is now nothing to see at ground level, no visible surface trace of any stone remaining in the soil. What survives is only the memory embedded in the landscape's name, and a single recorded description of what once stood there.

The local scholar P. Power, writing in 1923, noted that only one dallán, a term for a tall, narrow standing stone or pillar, had already survived from whatever original arrangement once occupied the field. That lone survivor measured roughly four feet high by two feet wide, modest in scale but clearly still upright and legible as a prehistoric monument at the time Power recorded it. The plural preserved in the field's name suggests there were once more, though no documentation appears to account for when or how the others disappeared. Sometime between Power's 1923 observation and more recent surveys, even that last stone was lost, leaving only the name as evidence that this was once a place marked by deliberate human arrangement of stone in the landscape.

The site is a reminder of how much prehistoric Ireland persists not in stone but in language. Placenames in Irish frequently preserved the memory of monuments long after the monuments themselves had been broken up, buried, or carted away for building material. "Ban na gCloch" does exactly that work, holding open a space in the historical record for something that can no longer be seen.