This one is remarkable for what does not. On a natural flat ridge above the undulating pasture of Husseystown in County Tipperary, a standing stone once occupied a position with extensive views in every direction, the kind of elevated, open situation that prehistoric communities repeatedly chose for these large upright stones. Today there is no visible trace of it in the field. The stone was broken up and removed, according to local memory, many years ago, leaving behind nothing but the landscape it once presided over.

The stone does survive in one form: cartographic. The Ordnance Survey six-inch map, in its 1901 to 1905 edition, marks the spot with the Irish word 'leagaun', a term used on OS maps to denote a standing stone or pillar stone. That the mapmakers recorded it under an Irish place-name suggests the stone had a distinct local identity at the turn of the twentieth century, recognised and named by the community around it. At some point after that survey, the stone was destroyed, its fate the same as countless others across Ireland that were broken up for building material, cleared from fields, or simply removed as an inconvenience to farming.