The standing stone recorded at Tooraleagan, in south County Limerick, appears to belong firmly to the second category. Somewhere in a stretch of pasture, roughly 115 metres north of the Tooraleagan River, a prehistoric upright stone was once noted on a map, given a name, and then, at some point between the late nineteenth century and the early twenty-first, apparently ceased to exist above ground.

The cartographic record tells a small but telling story. When the Ordnance Survey of Ireland produced its first detailed six-inch mapping in 1840, no standing stone was marked at this location. By 1897, however, the revised twenty-five-inch edition showed one clearly, annotated with the name 'Leagan', a word derived from the Irish meaning a lying-down or a felling, which may itself hint at a long history of the stone being toppled or displaced. Standing stones, which are among the most enduring and least understood monuments in the Irish landscape, were typically erected during the Bronze Age, though their precise purposes remain debated; they may have marked boundaries, burials, or routes through the land. The Tooraleagan River here forms a double boundary, separating the townland of Tooraleagan from Sraharla and, more significantly, marking the county line between Limerick and Cork. Whether the stone had any relationship to these divisions, ancient or otherwise, is unknown.

When aerial survey imagery captured the area between 2011 and 2013, no surface remains were visible, and subsequent Google Earth orthoimages confirmed the same absence. The stone may have been removed, buried, or broken up at some point in the intervening century. For anyone curious enough to visit the general area, the terrain is agricultural pasture and access would require landowner permission. There is nothing to see at the recorded location, at least not above ground, which is perhaps the point. The entry, compiled by Martin Fitzpatrick and uploaded in November 2021, serves less as a guide to something present and more as a record of something gone, preserved in a database because the gap it leaves in the evidence is itself worth noting.