The larger of the pair reaches three metres in height; the other, slightly shorter at 2.5 metres, is notably thinner at its base. For most of their existence they were accompanied by a third stone, this one lying prostrate immediately to the north, but that stone was removed in 1977, and its absence is one of those quiet losses that makes a prehistoric site a little harder to read.

The area they occupy, known as An Droim Thoir, sits between the mouths of the Owenmore river and the Scorid and Glennahoo rivers, a landscape that appears to have attracted a considerable concentration of prehistoric monuments. Two further standing stones survive within roughly 200 metres of this pair, suggesting the ridge was a meaningful place across a long period. The pair are also tied, in local tradition, to the legend of the Glas Ghaibhneach, a mythological grey cow of prodigious milk whose wanderings across Ireland left a trail of placenames and folklore behind her. The same legend attaches to a comparable pair of standing stones at Ballineanig, not far away on the same peninsula, hinting at a deliberate weaving of mythological narrative across the prehistoric landscape of Corca Dhuibhne. The association was recorded by An Seabhac, the pen name of the writer and Irish-language scholar Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha, in a 1939 publication drawing on the oral and written traditions of the area.