The surviving north-eastern stone is substantial, standing 3.2 metres tall and sitting within a field fence, the last upright remnant of an alignment that stretched roughly 7.6 metres from north-north-east to south-south-west. Its two companions did not fall or sink into the earth; they were simply put to work. Ordnance Survey records from 1933 note that the stones had been removed around twenty years earlier to serve as gate pillars on the same landholding, a fate that was practical rather than destructive but which quietly dismantled a monument that had stood for millennia.

Stone rows are a recurring feature of the Cork and Kerry landscape, thought to date from the Bronze Age, and they are frequently found in association with other ceremonial or funerary monuments. Pluckanes fits that pattern: a five-stone circle, a compact ring of upright stones of a type particularly common in south-west Munster, once stood approximately 75 metres to the west-south-west of the row. By 1910, when measurements were recorded, two of the three row stones were still standing. The second stone measured roughly 2.4 metres in height; the third was smaller, at about 1.2 metres. A 1938 Ordnance Survey six-inch map depicts a pair of stones near the fence some 30 metres to the north of the surviving original, and one of those repurposed gate pillars still stands, measuring 1.2 metres high. The transformation from monument to farm infrastructure happened within living memory of a century ago, which lends the site an oddly recent quality of loss.