The cromlech, a type of megalithic tomb formed by large upright stones capped with a horizontal slab, was displaced specifically to discourage the fairs that had been gathering at the lakeshore and, according to one account, acquiring a notably bawdy character.

The detail comes from Roberts (1988), who recorded that Lough Aderreen had been the scene of fairs that became disorderly enough to attract official disapproval. The ancient stone structure nearby was apparently seen not as something to be preserved but as a convenient instrument of suppression, its removal or dislocation intended to unsettle or disperse the gatherings that had formed around it. Whether the logic was symbolic, practical, or simply punitive is not recorded, but the episode illustrates how prehistoric monuments have been caught up in local social history in unexpected ways, serving agendas their builders could never have anticipated.

The site is no longer accessible. Overgrowth and waterlogging have closed off the low bogland where the displaced stones presumably still lie, somewhere to the west of the lough.