This one is remarkable for what was deliberately taken away, and for the peculiar paper trail left behind. In the high cutaway bog south of Musheramore Mountain in mid Cork, a pair of standing stones once marked the landscape long enough to be recorded on the 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, where they were labelled 'Gallauns', the Irish term for standing stones of uncertain prehistoric origin. By 1904 they were still visible, noted again on a revised survey. At some point after that, they vanished entirely, leaving no surface trace.

The stones' fate was pieced together, at least tentatively, from a 1937 account by a writer named Broker, who described what may have been the same pair on land belonging to a Tim Kelliher, near the mountain summit. Broker recorded two upright stones, three to four feet high with a girth of eight feet, and a flat flag stone lying between them, four feet wide and six feet long. The arrangement, two uprights flanking a recumbent slab, has echoes of the paired stone traditions found across Munster, though whether this particular grouping served a funerary, ritual, or boundary function is unknown. Broker also noted a local tradition that a figure called Donal Damanta was buried at the spot, a name that translates roughly from the Irish as 'Donal the Damned', the kind of folkloric designation that tends to accumulate around places already carrying an air of the uncanny. The stones were eventually removed by a man named Matthew Twomey, who broke them up to use as culvert material beneath a road, a fate that was, unfortunately, not unusual for prehistoric stonework in areas where building materials were scarce and their significance was either unknown or considered secondary to practical need.

There is nothing to see at Tooreenbane now. The site sits in cutaway bog, the kind of stripped, open ground left after peat extraction, and no visible trace of the stones remains. What endures is the sequence of documentation itself, the name on the old map, the girth measurement in a local account, the road somewhere nearby that may still rest on what were once prehistoric standing stones.