This one is notable for what does not. A standing stone once existed at Ballynaraha in mid Cork, a type of prehistoric marker, usually a single upright slab of stone whose original purpose remains debated by archaeologists, ranging from territorial boundary markers to sites of ritual or commemoration. The Ballynaraha example has left no visible trace on the ground whatsoever.

What makes the timeline of its disappearance quietly puzzling is the cartographic record. The Ordnance Survey mapped Ireland in considerable detail from the 1830s onwards, and neither the 1842 nor the 1904 six-inch map shows any standing stone at this location. Yet by 1937, a later OS six-inch revision marks it clearly as a single standing stone. This narrow window suggests the stone was either recorded for the first time in the intervening decades, perhaps noticed by a local surveyor, or was already a diminished or ambiguous feature that earlier mappers had passed over. At some point after 1937, it was removed entirely, leaving the archaeological record as the only evidence that it stood there at all.