In a pasture on a north-east-facing slope in Cloghboola More, County Cork, a standing stone once rose eight feet from the ground, broad enough that two men together could not have wrapped their arms around it. Sometime around 1984, it was removed. No marker replaced it. The field carried on.

What makes the loss slightly easier to measure is a note made in 1937 by a researcher named Broker, who recorded the stone under the Irish term gallan, the general word for a single upright megalith, and gave those dimensions: eight feet high, thicker than two men. That description is the clearest record we have of it. The stone did not appear on Ordnance Survey maps of 1842 or 1904, which is not unusual for standing stones of this kind; many were simply not considered remarkable enough to mark, or were already half-forgotten by the time systematic surveying began. What is more interesting is that the site sat within a cluster of at least four monuments in close proximity to one another, suggesting this part of mid-Cork was once a landscape with genuine ceremonial or territorial significance, even if the precise relationship between the monuments is now difficult to reconstruct.