At Shronebeirne in County Kerry, a prehistoric stone lies on its side in a waterlogged depression roughly 80 centimetres deep, its lower portion still hidden beneath the earth and water. What makes the situation particularly striking is its context: the stone has come to rest within the bank of a ring-barrow, the type of low circular earthwork that typically served as a burial monument during the Bronze Age. Whether the stone originally stood nearby and toppled into this position, or was always associated with the barrow, is not recorded.

The stone itself is substantial. The exposed portion measures 1.6 metres in height, 60 centimetres wide, and 38 centimetres thick, though only part of it is visible above the waterlogged ground. It sits in the north-western sector of the ring-barrow's bank, a relationship that raises the possibility of a deliberate prehistoric pairing between the two monument types, something that does occur elsewhere in Ireland, where standing stones and funerary earthworks were sometimes placed in deliberate proximity. The exact original function of this particular stone remains unresolved, as does the extent of what remains submerged.