Marked on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch maps, this prehistoric monument once stood on gently sloping pasture land that descends northward towards the River Finn in County Donegal. Its presence on these historical maps suggests it was a notable enough feature of the landscape to warrant documentation by Victorian surveyors, yet today nothing remains.

In 2005, archaeological testing was carried out in advance of house construction on the site where the stone supposedly stood. The excavation, catalogued as 05E0306, revealed no trace of the monument; not even disturbed soil or a socket where such a stone might have been erected thousands of years ago. Whether the stone was removed for building materials, toppled and buried, or simply eroded away over time remains a mystery.

This absence tells its own story about the fragility of our archaeological heritage. Standing stones, which typically date from the Bronze Age, were erected for reasons we can only speculate about; they may have marked boundaries, burial sites, or held ritual significance for the communities that raised them. The Dungorman stone’s disappearance, sometime between the late 19th century mapping surveys and the present day, serves as a sobering reminder that Ireland’s ancient landscape is constantly changing, with monuments that survived millennia sometimes vanishing in mere decades of modern development.