This one, in Rathclare in north County Cork, takes a quieter approach. Measuring just 0.8 metres in height and roughly square in footprint, it sits on a low bank along the northern side of the avenue leading to Spitalfields House, easy to overlook and easily mistaken for a boundary marker or a stray field stone. Its subrectangular plan and north-south orientation are the details that give it away as something more deliberate, the product of a careful, purposeful placement rather than agricultural convenience.

Standing stones as a monument type are notoriously difficult to date with precision. They appear across Ireland from the prehistoric period onwards and were erected for purposes that varied widely, from burial markers to route indicators to ritual focal points. What can be said of this particular stone is that it survives in situ, aligned along its long axis from north to south, and that it occupies a position on raised ground beside what is now a formal approach to a later country house. Whether the avenue was laid out to incorporate the stone, or whether the stone simply endured while the landscape around it was reorganised, is not recorded.