At Glenaglogh in County Cork, a prehistoric upright that once occupied a south-east-facing slope in open pasture has since been removed, leaving behind only the documentary trace of its existence and the question of where, exactly, it has gone.

When the archaeologist P. J. Hartnett visited and recorded the site in 1939, he found one stone still erect, measuring 46 inches high and 36 inches wide by 11 inches thick, held in place by two large packing stones wedged at its base. Standing stones, which date broadly to the Bronze Age in Ireland, were typically set this way, with substantial stones buried around the base to keep the upright stable in soft or shifting ground. Forty-two feet to the north-east, a second stone lay fallen, measuring 44 inches in length and 48 inches by 12 inches in cross-section. Whether these two stones formed a pair, or whether the fallen one had simply toppled from its own original position nearby, is not recorded. By the time the site was assessed for the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork in the 1990s, the stones had been removed entirely, their precise fate unrecorded.