This one at Curraghbower, in north County Cork, survives only on paper. There is nothing to see at the site today, no upright stone, no stump, no tell-tale hollow in the soil. The farmyard where it once stood holds no visible surface trace of what was, by any measure, a substantial prehistoric monument.

The Ordnance Survey Field Book of 1839 recorded it in some detail: a large stone approximately six feet high, fifteen inches thick, and sixteen feet in girth. Those are the proportions of something genuinely imposing, the kind of standing stone, a single upright megalith typically associated with Bronze Age ritual or boundary marking, that would have been a landmark across a wide stretch of countryside. James Grove White, the Cork antiquarian who compiled local historical records across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, noted the measurements and preserved them for posterity. It was, by the time his work reached publication, already too late. The stone had been broken, according to Grove White, when the field in which it stood was tilled, sometime before 1908. Whatever prompted the decision, whether the stone was an inconvenience to the plough or simply undervalued, the result was permanent. A monument that had endured for perhaps three thousand years did not survive the age of agricultural improvement.