Others simply happen quietly in the countryside, and by the time anyone thinks to look again, the stones are gone. That is what occurred at Caum in County Cork, where a pair of standing stones that had survived for millennia in flat pasture close to the River Lee disappeared sometime between 1977 and 1984. No precise date is recorded, no cause documented. They were there, and then they were not.

When they still stood, the two stones were aligned along a north-north-east to south-south-west axis, a directional orientation common to paired standing stones in Munster, though the significance of such alignments remains a matter of scholarly discussion. They were not large monuments. The northern stone measured roughly a metre in length and a metre in height; its southern companion was slightly smaller, around 0.8 metres long and 0.7 metres high. The pair stood just half a metre apart, giving the arrangement an overall length of approximately 2.3 metres. Their location in low, level ground, around 150 metres north of a loop in the River Lee, sets them apart from the hilltop or ridge placements more often associated with prehistoric standing stones in Cork, and may once have made them the more conspicuous for it. The site was catalogued by Sean O Nualláin in 1988, by which point the stones had already been lost.