This one is notable for what does not. On a small rise on a north-east-facing slope in Coolies, County Kerry, a pair of standing stones once faced each other across the pasture. Known in Irish as galláin, a term for single or paired upright stones whose precise prehistoric purpose remains debated, they stood roughly five feet tall and would have been a conspicuous feature of the low rise on which they sat. Today there is nothing to see.

The pair were recorded in the 1940s on land belonging to a Mr J.D. Lyne, described at the time as two galláin about five feet high and facing each other. At some point between that recording and a subsequent survey, they disappeared. According to local information, field clearance works carried out in the mid-1990s account for their fate; the stones were removed and deposited in a field to the north-east. The clearance of old upright stones during agricultural improvement was not uncommon across rural Ireland during the latter half of the twentieth century, when fields were being enlarged and machinery made such work more straightforward than it had ever been before. What was ancient and unremarked became, in the course of an afternoon's work, simply absent.

Immediately to the north of where the stones once stood, some buried material is visible, protruding slightly above the ground surface. Whether these fragments are related to the original galláin or are simply the residue of the same clearance work is unclear. It is a quiet field on a slope, and there is not much left to read in it.