Others have disappeared entirely, leaving only rumour and a patch of ordinary pasture. At Ardmeelode in County Kerry, on a north-west-facing slope beside farm buildings, there is nothing to see at all, which is precisely what makes the spot worth knowing about. What may once have stood here is a stone circle, one of the prehistoric arrangements of upright stones found across the Kerry landscape, often associated with ritual or ceremonial use during the Bronze Age. No trace of it remains above ground.

According to local information passed on during fieldwork, a group of standing stones in a field to the west of the farm buildings was removed sometime in the 1960s. That decade was not kind to prehistoric monuments across rural Ireland; agricultural improvement, land clearance, and the arrival of heavier machinery made the removal of inconvenient stones a practical, if archaeologically damaging, decision for many farmers. Whether the Ardmeelode stones genuinely formed a circle is uncertain. The record notes only that they "may have been" a stone circle, a careful qualification that reflects how much was lost before anyone could properly document what was there.