The one at Kilmoney in County Cork does the opposite. It sits in flat marshland, low and rectangular, barely reaching a metre in height, with the packing stones that were wedged around its base to hold it upright still visible at ground level. There is something quietly stubborn about a prehistoric monument that has outlasted the soft, waterlogged ground doing its best to swallow it.

The stone measures roughly 1.3 metres along its longest face and 0.48 metres across, with its long axis oriented north to south. That orientation may be deliberate; many standing stones across Ireland appear to have been positioned with astronomical alignments or territorial boundaries in mind, though the precise reasoning behind any individual example is rarely recoverable. What the packing stones do confirm is that the monument was carefully installed rather than simply driven into the earth. Whoever raised it took trouble to stabilise it, using smaller stones as wedges around the base, a technique documented at other Irish prehistoric standing stones. The marshy setting raises its own questions. Whether the ground was always this wet, or whether the landscape changed around the stone over the millennia, is not recorded, but either possibility adds to the slight oddness of finding a prehistoric marker in a place that feels more like drainage territory than ceremonial ground.