In the townland of Piercetown in County Cork, a site is recorded as the location of one of these prehistoric upright stones, the kind that were set into Irish landscapes thousands of years ago, likely as markers, memorials, or territorial signals, though their exact purpose remains a matter of ongoing debate. The stone sits, or rather sat, on a south-west-facing slope in pasture ground. Today, no visible surface trace remains.

Standing stones are among the most common prehistoric monument types in Ireland, and their very simplicity has always made them vulnerable. Ploughing, land improvement, and the slow work of time have removed or buried countless examples across the country. The Piercetown stone falls into this category of ghost monuments, places that survive only in the record rather than in the ground. Whether it was toppled, buried by gradual soil accumulation, or removed entirely during agricultural activity is not known. The site was catalogued in the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, covering East and South Cork, published in 1994, at which point the absence of any surface evidence was already noted.