The standing stone recorded at Coollick in County Kerry does the opposite. It no longer exists above ground at all, its presence known only through the fact that someone, at some point, noted it down before it disappeared entirely from view.

What the record preserves is a single, quietly interesting detail: the stone once stood in the south-eastern quadrant of a rath. A rath is a ringfort, the circular earthen enclosure used as a farmstead and family dwelling during the early medieval period in Ireland, typically between around 500 and 1000 AD. Thousands survive across the country in varying states of preservation. The association between a standing stone and a rath at Coollick is worth pausing over, since standing stones are considerably older in origin, often dating to the Bronze Age, and their proximity to a later ringfort may reflect deliberate reuse of the landscape, a pattern found elsewhere in Ireland where later settlers built close to, or within, existing monuments. Whether the stone was already ancient when the rath was constructed, or whether the two features were in some way related in use, is not something the surviving evidence can answer.