This one, in the townland of Ballynaglogh in County Cork, demands rather more than that: it no longer appears to exist above ground at all. A standing stone once occupied a south-east-facing slope of pasture here, but there is now no visible surface trace of it, leaving a small gap in the landscape where something old and upright used to be.

The stone was recorded by Condon in 1916, who noted its dimensions with some care: two feet tall, three feet and two inches wide, and two feet and six inches thick. Those proportions, wider than it is tall, suggest a squat, broad slab rather than the tall pointed monoliths that tend to come to mind when standing stones are mentioned. Standing stones as a class of monument are among the most ambiguous in Irish archaeology; their purposes remain genuinely uncertain, with suggested explanations ranging from territorial markers to ritual sites to memorials, and their dates span a considerable stretch of prehistory. Whatever this particular example once meant or marked, Condon measured it, noted it, and moved on. Sometime between that 1916 visit and the present, the stone dropped below the surface of the field, or was removed, or was buried, and the slope in Ballynaglogh closed over it.