This one is remarkable for what it no longer does. A standing stone that once occupied a field at Loughane in mid Cork has since been removed entirely, leaving no visible surface trace. It is, in the most literal sense, an absence masquerading as a place.

What little the cartographic record tells us is itself quietly puzzling. The stone does not appear on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of 1842 or 1904, suggesting it was either unnoticed by surveyors at the time, or considered too minor to warrant marking. Then, on the 1937 edition of the same series, it appears, recorded as a single standing stone. Standing stones are among the more enigmatic monuments in the Irish landscape, typically dating to the Bronze Age and associated with boundaries, burials, or ritual activity, though their precise purposes often remain unclear. Sometime after 1937, this one was taken down, most likely cleared during agricultural improvement work of the kind that quietly erased thousands of such features across the Irish countryside during the twentieth century. No trace of it remains above ground today.