Not destroyed in any recorded act of civic tidying or moral objection, just gone, leaving behind a pair of documentary traces and nothing else on the ground.

The evidence is thin but specific. A description from 1798, cited by Tutty in 1973, records a maypole erected at Harold's Cross, placing it in a period when such features were already becoming rarer in Irish and British urban life. Maypoles, traditionally raised on or around the first of May as part of Beltane-derived festivities, had faced periodic suppression and revival over the preceding centuries, and by the late eighteenth century their presence in a Dublin suburb would have been noteworthy enough to warrant recording. More intriguingly, the site was still considered significant enough to be marked on the first edition six-inch Ordnance Survey sheet of 1837, which means that nearly four decades after the 1798 description, cartographers working on the most systematic mapping project Ireland had yet seen thought it worth including. Whether the pole itself still stood at that date or whether the mark indicated a remembered location is not clear from the surviving record.

Today there is no visible trace. Harold's Cross is a settled residential and commercial neighbourhood, and nothing on the streetscape signals that this particular piece of folk topography ever existed. The Ordnance Survey sheet from 1837 is the most useful tool for anyone curious about the approximate location, and it can be consulted through the OSi historical map viewer online. The site makes most sense as an object of curiosity for those already walking the area, perhaps in combination with the nearby Harold's Cross Park or the historic Greenmount district. There is nothing to see in the conventional sense, but that absence is itself part of what makes the record interesting: a maypole in a Dublin suburb, documented, mapped, and then quietly lost.