The splitting was deliberate: someone, at some point, set explosives to a large block and blew it apart. What remains has acquired a local reputation that outlasted whatever practical purpose the blasting may have served. The fragments are known in the area as the "cursed stones", a name that suggests the community around them formed a distinct view of the act, or perhaps of the stones themselves.

The classification of this site as an "anomalous stone group" reflects a genuine archaeological uncertainty. Such a category tends to gather monuments that resist easy identification, stones whose original arrangement or function cannot be confidently assigned to a known type. Whether this particular block was once a standing stone, part of a field boundary, or something older and less classifiable is not recorded. What is clear is that the intervention of explosives transformed it, and that the transformation left a mark not just on the stone but on local memory. The label "cursed stones" points to a folk response to the damage, a sense that breaking certain stones carries consequences. This kind of belief is not unusual in rural Ireland, where specific rocks, trees, and wells have long been regarded as carrying protections or prohibitions that rational explanations do not fully displace.