This one, in the townland of Com Na Heorna Thoir in County Kerry, has had a rather less dignified recent history. It now stands in a garden, immediately beside a septic tank.

The stone originally stood roughly fifty metres to the north, in the yard of Coom Cottage, where it would have occupied much the same kind of incidental, half-noticed position that many such monuments occupy on working farmsteads across Ireland. Standing stones are among the most common prehistoric monument types in the country, typically dating to the Bronze Age, though their precise purpose remains a matter of debate: they may have marked boundaries, commemorated the dead, or served as waypoints in a landscape that was organised very differently from anything legible to us now. During building works at the cottage, at some point around 2006, the stone collapsed. Rather than being left where it fell or re-erected in its original position, it was moved to the garden, where it has remained since. The relocation means that whatever spatial relationship it once held with the surrounding landscape, or with the earlier monument complex nearby, has been quietly severed.