It is the kind of absence that is almost more interesting than a presence would be.

The Co. Kerry Field Club's Minute Book for 1945 recorded what it called 'a small gallan', using the Irish term for a standing stone, a single upright slab of rock erected in the prehistoric or early medieval period, often for purposes that remain uncertain. The dimensions noted were precise enough to suggest a first-hand account: four feet high, two feet wide, nine inches thick. Modest by the standards of Irish monumental stonework, but clearly there, clearly noted. When surveyors returned to the same location in 1985, they found level terrain and pasture, with no visible surface trace of the stone remaining. Whether it was removed, buried by shifting soil, or incorporated into field infrastructure at some point in the intervening forty years is not recorded.