The granite stump at Tornant, in County Wicklow, does the opposite. Reduced to little more than a buried or near-buried block, it leaves no visible surface indication of what it is or what it may once have been. That absence is itself part of the puzzle.

What little survives above ground was noted by Liam Price in 1934, who recorded it in the context of a broader prehistoric arrangement nearby. Price proposed that this granite stump, sitting roughly 150 metres north-north-east of a local enclosure, may have functioned as an outlier to a possible stone circle in the immediate area. An outlier is a single standing stone placed at some distance from a circle or alignment, sometimes thought to mark an astronomical sight-line or to define the outer boundary of a monument's significance. Whether that relationship held at Tornant is impossible to confirm now. The stone circle Price referenced is itself classed as a possible rather than a confirmed example, meaning the whole complex rests on qualified interpretation rather than clear archaeological evidence. The site has nonetheless been considered significant enough to carry a preservation order dating to 1958, one of the earlier such designations made under the National Monuments Acts.