The stone at Bealick, in mid Cork, falls into that category: it was absent from both the 1842 and 1904 six-inch OS surveys, yet it stands in open pasture on a south-facing slope, roughly a metre and a half tall and broad enough to be unmistakable.

The stone itself is subrectangular in plan, meaning it has a roughly rectangular cross-section with slightly irregular edges, and measures 1.57 metres in height, 0.94 metres across, and 0.16 metres in depth. Its long axis runs NNE to SSW, an orientation that may be deliberate, as many prehistoric standing stones across Ireland and Britain appear to have been placed with careful attention to alignment, though whether that reflects astronomical, territorial, or ritual intent is rarely resolved with certainty for any individual example. Standing stones of this kind are among the most enigmatic monuments in the Irish archaeological record; they are difficult to date without excavation, and their original purpose is seldom documented. They crop up singly or in groups across Cork and Kerry in particular, often on slopes or at field boundaries, sometimes associated with Bronze Age activity, sometimes not conclusively associated with anything at all.

The absence of the Bealick stone from two successive generations of detailed mapping is itself a small puzzle. The Ordnance Survey teams of the nineteenth century were generally thorough, and antiquities were often noted even when not fully understood. That this stone escaped their attention twice over suggests it may have been obscured, fallen, or simply overlooked in a corner of pasture that drew no particular scrutiny at the time.