This one is quietly interesting for what almost certainly does not. At Drom in County Cork, a probable standing stone has been reduced to a practical afterlife as a gate post, its prehistoric past repurposed into something useful and, in the process, largely forgotten. Standing stones are among the most widespread prehistoric monuments in Ireland, single upright slabs erected during the Bronze Age for purposes that remain only partially understood, whether as territorial markers, ritual focal points, or astronomical alignments. This one, if it was ever a standing stone at all, no longer stands in any meaningful sense.

The site was recorded by O'Brien in 1970, who noted two gate posts at the bottom of a north-facing slope in what was then pasture, one of which had the appearance of a possible standing stone. The land had recently been reclaimed at the time of the observation, and even then there was no trace of the stone in situ. The language of the record is carefully hedged, as it should be: "could have been" does a lot of work here. What O'Brien saw was a gate post that retained the look of a prehistoric upright, the kind of large, roughly shaped slab that farmers have been quietly redeploying for centuries wherever the need for a sturdy hinge-point and a conveniently large stone happen to coincide.