The central part of Stonehenge comprises several concentric stone arrangements. (more here)

 Broadly speaking the monument is made up of two stone types. The stones of the outer Sarsen circle and the central Trilithons are local to the area. These hard sandstone stones were probably transported from the Marlborough Downs; about twenty miles to the north-east of Salisbury Plain.

The  'bluestones' (80 stones, weighing up to five tons each) duplicate the arrangements of the sarsen stones. There is a bluestone circle inside the outer sarsen circle and a bluestone horseshoe inside the trilithons.

Stonehenge is not the first site where the bluestones stood as a circle. The stones show evidence of having been erected somewhere else previously.

Before their erection at Stonehenge these stones comprised a sacred circle. Robert Graves said this sacred circle was transported to Stonehenge for it's religious significance; in the words of Professor Rhys ' the stones were regarded as divine or as seats of divine power'. 

The bluestones are not local to the area of Stonehenge; so where did the bluestones originate?

The frequently maligned early historian Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his  'History of the kings of Britain' written around 1139AD, recounts the story that, at the request of Ambrosius Aurelanius, Merlin used his magic arts to transport enormous stones, the 'Choir of the Giants', from Ireland to form Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain. A story usually treated as fantasy.

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However Geological analysis in relatively recent times has shown that the bluestones at Stonehenge came from somewhere in the Preseli mountains in Pembrokeshire, Southwest Wales. The Preseli mountains lie in that part of westernmost Britain in an area settled by the Irish and sometimes referred to as Ireland in Geoffrey's time (More on this here)

So Geoffrey was not wrong about where the stones came from;

but what about the rest? Stonehenge had already stood for millenia by the time of Ambrosius. (More on this here)

 Did Geoffrey attribute the movement of the stones across great distances to Merlin's magic because he truly believed that or was he just saying he didn't really know how they'd been moved.

The use of 'It must have been magic' can be as much an expression of ignorance as it is of superstition. It's a term still used to refer to something not understood, inexplicable.

The extent of our knowledge on the subject is well summed up by Julian Richards in his book  'Stonehenge.' "Human transport, despite the distances and effort required, still seems a more reasonable concept."

Several hundred years later, despite all the advances in science, we still don't know how the stones were transported.

Until the advent of the railways transport by water was the only way to effectively move large heavy objects over long distances.

(read more on water vs land transportation)

It's likely that much of the transportation of the bluestones from the Preseli Mtns. to Stonehenge was by water. First by river, then along/across the Bristol Channel/Severn Estuary, then lastly by river(s) to Stonehenge; and while we can't be certain which rivers were used we can be certain that in their passage across the Bristol Channel/Severn Estuary the bluestones would have been carried past Lundy Island.