In a field to the south of the O'Briens' house at Garragort in north Cork, a long slab of stone lies flat on the ground, measuring just over two metres in length and roughly thirty-five by twenty-five centimetres across its face. It was almost certainly upright once, set into the earth as a marker, a boundary indicator, or a monument of a kind whose original purpose prehistoric standing stones rarely make plain. Now it simply lies there, a presence in the grass rather than against the sky.

By 1934, when the researcher Bowman noted it, the stone had already been down for some time. The record suggests it had been removed from its socket around twelve years before that, placing its toppling somewhere in the early 1920s. The note references it in connection with a Miss O'Brien, though the precise circumstances of its removal are not recorded. Whether it was shifted deliberately, fell through neglect, or came down during some work on the land is not known. What is clear is that a stone of this size, more than two metres long, would once have been a conspicuous feature of the local landscape, visible from a distance in the way that these monuments were almost certainly intended to be.