The standing stone at Garraun in County Cork belongs to that last, peculiar category. It does not appear on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of 1842 or 1904, turns up on the equivalent map of 1937, and is now gone entirely, leaving no visible trace on the ground.

Standing stones are among the most enigmatic of Irish prehistoric monuments, single upright slabs whose original purposes remain debated, ranging from burial markers to boundary indicators to sites of ritual significance. The Garraun example stood on a south-west facing slope in what was pasture land, roughly 75 metres south-west of a second stone that may itself have been a standing stone. That proximity hints at a pairing or alignment of some kind, though the record is too thin to say anything certain. Its absence from the earlier Ordnance Survey maps is not necessarily evidence that it was erected after 1904; the surveyors of those periods were inconsistent in recording such features, and many genuine prehistoric stones went unnoticed or were considered unremarkable. By 1937 someone had thought it worth marking. At some point after that, it was removed, leaving only that mid-century cartographic footnote behind.