Not obscured by vegetation, not tumbled into a ditch, but genuinely invisible, leaving no surface trace whatsoever. The ground has simply swallowed it.

Standing stones are among the most common prehistoric monuments in Ireland, erected during the Bronze Age for purposes that remain genuinely uncertain, possibly as boundary markers, burial indicators, or focal points for ritual activity. This one was recorded by Walsh in 1984, at which point its location in marshy ground on the slope was documented. Marshland is not kind to archaeology. Waterlogged, shifting, and often subject to seasonal flooding, such ground can gradually engulf even substantial upright stones over the course of decades or centuries. By the time the record was formalised in the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork in 1994, the stone had already disappeared beneath the surface entirely.