At Shrule in County Wexford, a modest upright stone was recorded in 1940 as part of an Ordnance Survey field memoir, noted on the six-inch map of that year and described in enough detail to suggest it was plainly visible to whoever measured it. By 1987, it could not be found at ground level at all.

The 1940 description gives a precise, if modest, picture. The stone measured roughly 0.6 metres by 0.55 metres at its base and rose to just over a metre in height, with an unusually square, flat top of about 0.3 metres by 0.3 metres. Standing stones, which are exactly what they sound like, single stones set upright in the ground, are generally prehistoric in origin, though their precise purpose varies and is often unknown. This one sat just off the south-east-facing slope of a col, the low saddle of ground between two hills, with higher ground rising about 600 metres to both the south-west and the north. It is the kind of placement that recurs with prehistoric monuments, positioned in relation to the surrounding landscape rather than at any obvious summit or centre. Whether it fell, was buried, was removed, or simply subsided into the ground over the intervening decades is not recorded.