The standing stone that once marked the south-westerly end of a carefully spaced row of three stones in the townland of Dromasmole is gone, and the ground that held it has long since been repurposed for a rather different kind of leisure.

When the archaeologist P. J. Hartnett documented the site in 1939, he found something quietly orderly about what remained. He described an extended line of three stones running north-east for roughly 320 yards, noting that they were fairly regular in section and evenly spaced along their alignment. The stone at the south-western end stood about 42 inches high. Stone alignments of this kind, rows of upright megaliths set into the ground during the Bronze Age, are found in some concentration across County Cork and Kerry, and their precise purpose remains uncertain, though astronomical and ritual functions have both been proposed. Hartnett also noted a fourth stone in the townland, recorded separately, suggesting that Dromasmole once held a more complex arrangement than any single line might imply. At some point after his visit, the south-westerly stone was removed entirely.

What is left now is largely absence. The golf course that occupies the area gives no obvious indication of what came before it, and with the stone gone there is little to observe on the ground. The interest here is really in the record itself, in the fact that as recently as 1939 a trained observer could stand in this townland and see a Bronze Age alignment still largely intact, its spacing still legible, and that within a few decades of that observation, part of it had vanished.