Though they appeared on earlier surveys, by the time the Ordnance Survey teams arrived to create their detailed 6-inch maps in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the stones had vanished from the landscape. No trace of them appears on either the second or third editions of these meticulous Victorian and Edwardian maps.

According to local tradition, the two standing stones weren’t destroyed or carted away; instead, they lie buried somewhere beneath the soil that now supports crops and grazing animals. Whether they were deliberately interred to clear the land for agriculture or gradually sank into the boggy Donegal earth remains unknown. Their exact location has been lost to time, leaving only oral histories and archaeological records to confirm they ever existed at all.

This information comes from the comprehensive Archaeological Survey of County Donegal, compiled by Brian Lacey and his team in 1983, which catalogued field antiquities from the Mesolithic period through to the 17th century. The survey, published by Donegal County Council, represents one of the most thorough attempts to document the county’s archaeological heritage, including sites like these lost standing stones that survive only in local memory and historical records.