The example standing in Béal an Mhuirthead, on the north Mayo coast, carries an extra layer of awkwardness: it is not where it originally stood. It is, in a quiet way, a monument that had to be rescued.

When a housing development was constructed in the area, the stone was displaced from its original position, which lies approximately 120 metres to the east-north-east of where it now stands. Rather than lose it entirely, it was re-erected at its current location in 2005. These kinds of relocations are never entirely satisfactory from an archaeological point of view, since so much of what a standing stone means is bound up in its precise relationship to the surrounding landscape, to other features nearby, and to the ground it was set into. A stone pulled from its original socket and replanted elsewhere retains its physical presence but loses the spatial context that archaeologists depend on for interpretation.