Two standing stones once rose here, substantial enough to have served as markers in a field boundary, their origins stretching back into prehistory. One is now gone entirely, broken up during land reclamation work. The other, measuring 3.1 metres long by roughly a metre wide, was not destroyed but displaced, hauled out and dumped beside a roadside field boundary, where it lies rather than stands.

Standing stones are among the most common and least understood monuments in the Irish landscape. They were raised, usually during the Bronze Age, for purposes that remain genuinely unclear, whether as boundary markers, memorials, astronomical indicators, or ritual focal points. At Boardee, local information recorded by S. O'Mahony suggests these two particular stones had been absorbed into agricultural use as field boundary markers, which is not unusual. Farmers across centuries have pressed ancient stonework into practical service, and the line between a prehistoric monument and a convenient lump of rock can blur quickly once a field needs dividing. What makes this site unusual is the completeness of the record of its own unravelling. One stone smashed, one shunted to the verge: the archaeology here is as much about the loss as about what remains.