They are modest things, the tallest reaching just over a metre, arranged in a line running roughly east-north-east to south-west across a span of about five metres. Stone rows of this kind, a prehistoric monument type found across Cork and Kerry, were almost certainly ceremonial in purpose, though precisely what they marked or facilitated remains genuinely uncertain. What gives this particular row its quiet interest is not grandeur but the small discrepancy between what exists now and what was recorded in the past.

When the Ordnance Survey compiled its Name Books in 1841, the surveyors noted five stones set in a straight line of thirty links, roughly six metres in length. By the time a modern survey was carried out, only four stones could be accounted for. The OS Memoranda of 1933 had noted a further low stone, just thirty centimetres high, lying about two and a half metres to the north of the third stone in the row; no trace of it survives today. The four remaining stones do increase gradually in height from north-east to south-west, with the tallest and broadest stone standing at the south-western end. This graded progression, common in Cork-Kerry stone rows, suggests the alignment was deliberate and considered, not simply stones planted at convenient intervals. The site is referenced in Seán Ó Nualláin's 1988 study of stone rows, which catalogued examples across the region.