This one is notable for what does not. On the northern slope of a ridge to the east of the Cleady River in Caher, County Kerry, a standing stone once rose from the pasture, prominent enough to be recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of both 1846 and 1895. By the time anyone thought to look more carefully, it had gone entirely, leaving no visible trace on the ground.

Standing stones are among the most common yet least understood monuments in the Irish landscape. Erected variously as boundary markers, ritual focal points, or memorials, they were substantial enough to survive millennia in many cases, which makes their disappearance, when it does happen, quietly telling. The Caher stone appears on two successive OS surveys across nearly half a century, suggesting it was still a recognisable feature of the land in the late nineteenth century. What happened between that last mapping and its eventual absence is unrecorded. Stones were sometimes removed for use as building material, incorporated into field walls, gateposts, or foundations, their prehistoric significance less pressing to a farmer than their practical weight and mass.