No stump, no socket, no depression in the earth; just pasture on a north-facing slope, with no visible surface trace of what was once considered significant enough to erect.

What makes this absence particularly curious is what the maps reveal. The stone does not appear on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of 1842 or 1904, suggesting it was either unrecorded or overlooked by the surveyors of those eras. Then, on the 1939 six-inch map, it appears, marked plainly as a single standing stone. Sometime after that, it was removed. Standing stones are among the most ancient and enigmatic monuments in the Irish landscape, typically dating to the Bronze Age, though some may be earlier or later, and their original purposes remain debated, ranging from territorial markers to ritual sites to astronomical alignments. This one left the record almost as quietly as it entered it, present for one cartographic moment and gone thereafter.