That absence is, in its own way, the most interesting thing about it.

Ordnance Survey mapping from 1842 and again from 1904 makes no mention of any stone at this location on the west-facing pasture slope. Then, on the 1938 six-inch OS map, a single standing stone is marked, suggesting it was either newly recorded by surveyors who had overlooked it before, or that it had been identified in the intervening decades and added to the cartographic record. Standing stones in Ireland are generally prehistoric monuments, erected individually or as part of broader ritual or boundary landscapes, though their precise purposes remain a matter of debate among archaeologists. Whatever the Garraun stone's origins, it did not survive long in the record. At some point after 1938 it was removed, leaving the pasture undisturbed and the spot unmarked.

The result is a site that exists almost entirely as a cartographic ghost, visible on one edition of a map and nowhere else, neither before nor after. There is nothing to see at Garraun today, no stone, no socket, no earthwork. What remains is only the question of what stood there, and why it disappeared.