They were removed during land reclamation works in 1995, and with them went any certainty about what they actually were. A local source described them as possible standing stones, or perhaps part of a larger structure, which is the kind of ambiguity that tends to follow prehistoric monuments when no formal record was made before the machinery arrived.

The site sits on ground marked as Knockloughan on the 1916 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, bordering the south-eastern edge of a pool called Loughsheebaun. That name, Loughsheebaun, suggests a pale or white lake, and the elevated position of the stones would have made them visible across a considerable stretch of the surrounding country. About 250 metres to the north-west, on a ridge, there is a ringbarrow and an ogham stone, both still recorded as present. A ringbarrow is a low circular earthen mound enclosed by a ditch, typically associated with burial in the prehistoric period, and ogham is an early medieval script consisting of notched lines cut along the edge of a stone, used mainly for commemorating individuals. That cluster of monument types in close proximity suggests the broader area carried some significance across a long stretch of prehistory and early history, which makes the loss of the Bracklaghboy stones feel less like a minor footnote and more like a gap in a pattern that was just becoming legible.