This one in Cappeen, in west Cork, is recorded largely for the absence of itself. What survives is a silted socket cut into a rock outcrop on a north-facing slope of bogland, a roughly oval hollow measuring about 0.8 metres by 0.5 metres and around 0.3 metres deep, the ghost of whatever once rose from it.

Around the turn of the twentieth century, according to the landowner, the stone was removed from that socket, split in two, and repurposed as a pair of door lintels in the construction of a nearby house. It is a very Irish kind of recycling, and not without precedent. Prehistoric standing stones, erected during the Bronze Age or earlier as boundary markers, ritual monuments, or simple waypoints across the landscape, have always been vulnerable to pragmatic reuse. A large upright slab of dressed or undressed stone was, to a farmer or builder short on materials, simply a large slab of stone. In this case the conversion was thorough enough that the stone itself is archaeologically gone, absorbed into domestic architecture, while the socket it once occupied remains exposed in the rock, quietly accumulating silt.