In level pasture in Rath Beg, County Kerry, three standing stones were once noted in a field with open views south-west towards the Paps of Dana, the two rounded hills in the Derrynasaggart Mountains long associated in folklore with the goddess Danu. Of those three stones, none survive above ground today.

The stones were known locally as gallán stones, the Irish term for a standing stone or monolith, typically a single upright slab of prehistoric date whose original purpose remains debated but may have included boundary marking, ritual significance, or commemoration. Three were recorded here: one still upright at the time of documentation, two already prostrate. The source was the Schools Manuscript collection, a body of local folklore and topographical information gathered in the 1930s by Irish schoolchildren under the direction of the Irish Folklore Commission, which means the account of Lawrence Kelly's land, where the stones stood, dates to that decade at the earliest. By the time the site was formally assessed, the stones had disappeared entirely. About thirty metres to the east, a possible rath survives, or at least the trace of one. A rath is a circular earthwork enclosure, typically of early medieval date, built as a farmstead or high-status residence and found across Ireland in their thousands. Whether the stones and the rath were ever connected in use or meaning is not recorded.

What remains is essentially a place defined by absence, located in a landscape that still carries some of the geographical orientation those stones once shared, the long south-westerly sightline towards peaks that have held a name and a story for longer than any monument in the field.