That six inscribed stones ended up as structural timber substitutes, stacked overhead in the dark of an underground chamber, tells you something about how the practical needs of later generations tended to override any reverence for what came before.

The stones were first recorded by Barry in 1891, but their subsequent journey is where the story becomes genuinely tangled. Four of the six were removed from the souterrain and incorporated into a cottage in the nearby village of Laharan. From there, three of those four were acquired by Lord Dunraven and transported to his mansion at Adare in County Limerick, where they remained. The fourth stone, left behind in Laharan, was described by the epigrapher R.A.S. Macalister in 1945 as having been lost to sight entirely. Yet the stone Macalister went on to describe in detail, measuring approximately 1.07 metres long and inscribed on two angles with the reading CORBAGNI MAQI BIVITI, a personal name in the genitive followed by the ogham word for "son of" and a father's name, is now identified as being at Adare Manor, catalogued among the Dunraven stones. The original six have scattered: some documented, at least one gone, and the Kerry rath that sheltered them long since stripped of whatever epigraphy it once held.