On the west bank of the River Laune in Ardmoneel, County Kerry, there once stood a gallaun, the Irish term for a standing stone, typically a single upright stone set into the ground in prehistory for purposes that remain genuinely unclear. This one is gone. No trace of it remains in the undulating field where it once stood, and its absence is, in its own quiet way, the whole story.

The stone appears on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map, labelled in the cartographers' careful hand as 'Gallaun', which places its recorded existence firmly in the nineteenth century, even if the stone itself is likely far older. It was documented as part of the archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan, published by Cork University Press in 1996, a systematic effort to catalogue the prehistoric and early historic remains of south Kerry. By the time that survey was compiled, or sometime thereafter, the stone had already vanished from the landscape, lost to land clearance, agricultural improvement, or simple misfortune.