On a broad hillside in Graigavalla, County Waterford, a standing stone that once rose to a height of 1.35 metres now lies flat on the ground, a position that is itself a piece of evidence. Standing stones, typically erected during the Bronze Age, are among the most enigmatic monuments in the Irish landscape; their original purposes remain debated, with theories ranging from territorial markers to ritual or astronomical functions. This one, made from conglomerate, a rock formed from compressed fragments of older stone, has a rectangular cross-section that widens slightly towards its flat top, giving it a subtle taper in reverse. It was oriented along a northeast to southwest axis, an alignment that may or may not have been deliberate, but which is common enough among such monuments to invite the question.

When the stone was inspected in 2012, it was found prostrate on its southwest face, measuring 1.72 metres in total length, with a rectangular base of 0.54 by 0.46 metres. Lying adjacent was a flat slab, roughly 34 by 44 centimetres and only five centimetres thick, which may have served as a packing-stone, used to stabilise and seat the upright in the ground during the original erection. The hollow remaining in the earth where the stone once stood confirms that it had been set in place deliberately, rather than simply resting on the surface. Whether it fell through age, ground movement, or human interference is not recorded. What remains is a stone, a hollow, and a small flat slab that together describe the ghost of a monument.