This one is defined entirely by what cannot. In the townland of Laharankeal in mid Cork, a standing stone was once recorded, a single upright stone of the kind erected across Ireland from the Bronze Age onwards, sometimes marking boundaries, sometimes graves, sometimes purposes we can no longer recover. Today, there is no visible surface trace of it whatsoever.

The stone was documented by P. J. H. Hartnett, whose fieldwork contributed to the archaeological record of County Cork. His note is spare: a standing stone, here, in this townland. What happened to it is unrecorded. Stones of this type have been removed over the centuries for use in field walls, buildings, and road foundations, buried by shifting soil, or simply toppled and swallowed by vegetation. The absence of any surface trace means Laharankeal now holds only the memory of a monument, a coordinate on a map where something once stood upright and has since gone quiet.