At Killeen in County Cork, there was once a standing stone, a gallán in Irish, the term used for these solitary upright stones whose original purposes remain debated but which are generally associated with prehistoric ritual, boundary-marking, or burial. This particular example was recorded as being cut from red stone, roughly four feet tall and just over three feet wide, with a relatively narrow profile of twelve inches. It no longer stands.

The stone was noted by Condon in 1916, who recorded its dimensions with the kind of specificity that suggests it was still a visible and reasonably intact feature at that time. At some point after that observation, it was removed. The record does not say by whom, or when exactly, or why. That brevity is itself informative. Across Ireland, standing stones have been cleared from fields for practical reasons, incorporated into walls and buildings, or simply shifted because they were inconvenient. A stone nearly four feet high and over three feet across would have been a substantial presence in a field, and that physical weight presumably made it useful for something else once its original context had been forgotten or set aside.