An Ordnance Survey map from 1901 shows two standing stones at Curraduff, upright and presumably unremarkable enough at the time to be recorded without further comment. Visit today and you will find nothing. The stones are gone, and so, apparently, are several more that were never officially counted.

According to local information, around five stones were removed from the site in approximately 1970. The 1901 map had noted only two, which raises the quiet question of whether the others were already lost by then, or simply went unrecorded by the surveyors. Standing stones are among the most common prehistoric monument types in Ireland, erected singly or in groups during the Bronze Age for purposes that remain genuinely unclear, whether as boundary markers, ceremonial focal points, or memorials. At Curraduff, even that ambiguity has been largely foreclosed. What the landscape holds now is an absence, a place where something old enough to have outlasted entire civilisations was cleared away within living memory, most likely to make agricultural work a little easier.