This one in Friarstown North, County Limerick, is remarkable for what it almost certainly does not. Recorded in the national monuments database as a standing stone, the site sits in level pasture on a slight west-facing slope, roughly 65 metres north of the townland boundary with Fanningstown. There is nothing there. No stone, no stump, no socket hollow, no disturbance in the grass. The monument does not appear on Google Earth imagery taken in 2019, and according to researchers who have examined the historical record, there may never have been anything to see in the first place.

The doubts are longstanding and come from credible sources. Both Grogan (1989) and O'Kelly (1943) found no evidence that a standing stone ever existed at this location, and the compilers of the monument record, including Fiona Rooney who uploaded the entry in August 2020, note that the site may simply have been marked in the wrong place on an earlier map or survey. There is also the possibility that it is a duplicate entry, recorded twice under separate reference numbers, with the genuine candidate being the monument listed as LI013-095. A ringfort does exist in the general area, listed as LI022-037, lying around 165 metres to the southeast, which suggests the landscape was certainly used and settled in earlier periods. But for the standing stone itself, the paper trail leads to a cartographic question mark rather than any prehistoric monolith.

For anyone curious enough to visit, the location is in open farmland and there is, by definition, nothing to find on the ground. What makes it worth knowing about is precisely that quality of institutional uncertainty: a site that exists as a database entry, complete with grid reference and monument number, while the object it describes remains unconfirmed and possibly imaginary. It sits as a small, accidental illustration of how the archaeological record is built, and occasionally misbuilt, from overlapping surveys, transcription errors, and the occasional ghost feature that travels forward through the literature without anyone ever going back to check.