This one in Mortlestown, County Limerick, does none of that. It sits in reclaimed pasture, 170 metres west of the townland boundary with Ballygeagoge, and it never made it onto the Ordnance Survey Ireland historic maps at all. For a standing stone, a type of prehistoric upright monument erected across Ireland from roughly the Bronze Age onwards, invisibility in the cartographic record is unusual enough to prompt a second look.

The stone was identified as a standing stone by Tom Fox of Teagasc in 2009, a relatively recent recognition for something that may have been standing in that field for several thousand years. What makes its position more interesting is the local clustering: a second standing stone lies approximately 105 metres to the north, catalogued as LI056-057, and a third sits around 160 metres to the northeast, catalogued as LI056-058. Groups of standing stones arranged across a landscape like this are not uncommon in Irish prehistory, though their precise purpose remains debated, with theories ranging from territorial markers to astronomical alignments to ritual functions. The Mortlestown stone was flagged as a possible example of the type from Google Earth orthoimages, satellite imagery that has become a useful, if imperfect, tool for identifying features that ground surveys or older mapping methods missed.

Access to the site requires some care, as it lies in working agricultural land and the stone is not formally marked or maintained as a heritage attraction. The surrounding pasture has been reclaimed, meaning the landscape around it has been significantly altered over time, so the stone may sit in a context quite different from its original setting. Anyone visiting should seek landowner permission before entering the field. The cluster of three stones in this part of Limerick, taken together, rewards some patience with the map, particularly the current OSi layers which do record the sites even if the historic editions do not.