The reason was practical rather than malicious; field boundaries get rebuilt, land gets managed, and ancient stones are heavy and convenient. What was lost in the process was a stone bearing cupmarks, those shallow, deliberately carved circular depressions found on prehistoric monuments across Ireland and Britain, whose precise purpose remains debated but whose presence marks a stone as something more than structural. It is now 1.7 metres long and 0.8 metres high, lying on its side in the fence where it was placed.

The stone had a companion. Writing in 1934, Bowman recorded two stones standing roughly 3.6 metres apart, located about 90 metres south-southeast of what may be a stone row. The first was already inclining when he visited, measuring approximately six feet eleven inches by thirteen feet four inches. The second, to the north, was broken, but its remaining portion still stood fourteen feet high with a girth of seven feet eight inches. That second stone, the larger and more impressive of the pair, was the one later moved. Together, the two formed part of a loose cluster of prehistoric activity in the area, the nearby possible stone row suggesting this was a landscape that held some significance to the communities who shaped it thousands of years ago, even if the precise nature of that significance is now irrecoverable.