In the townland of Nohaval in County Cork, a standing stone once occupied a patch of ground on land belonging to a J. Daly, modest in scale at roughly one foot three inches by two feet three inches by eleven inches, positioned twenty-five yards north of a companion stone. It is gone now, removed around 1957, leaving no visible trace at the surface.

What makes this absence worth noting is the company it kept. Bowman, writing in 1934, recorded no fewer than six standing stones in this single townland. Standing stones are among the most enigmatic prehistoric monuments in Ireland, raised individually or in loose groupings for purposes that remain genuinely unclear, whether as territorial markers, ritual focal points, or something else entirely. Six within one townland is a concentration worth pausing over, and the Daly land stone was one of the group. Its small dimensions suggest it was never a particularly imposing monument, but size rarely determined significance in the prehistoric landscape. By the time anyone thought to look carefully, it had already been cleared away, as happened to countless such stones throughout the twentieth century when land was being improved or tidied.